Research on diverging destinies provides a compelling and influential framework for
understanding relationships between socioeconomic bifurcation in family behavior and …

Many single adult children in countries around the world live with their parents. Such
coresidence has been thought to delay the transition to first marriage, although the exact …

The negative association between education and marriage timing is often explained by an
economic independence theory: education provides women with independent economic …

Research on mate selection rarely considers singles' preferences for their future partners'
family configurations and experiences. Using online dating records from a matchmaking …

Child survival depends on the allocation of resources within the household. The size and
composition of the sibling set influences parental division of resources and can in turn affect …

This article investigates the household determinants of teen marriage in Ethiopia, India,
Peru, and Vietnam using data from the international Young Lives study tracking a cohort of …

In theory, people who own real estate should have advantage finding a partner in the
marriage market. Empirical analyses along this line, however, face three issues. First, it is …

BACKGROUND Most research linking jobs to marriage formation focuses on how job
contexts and prospects affect singles' paces of entering marriage. Direct evidence on …

BACKGROUND Few studies of same-sex relationships are able to capture the dynamics of
these relationships from formation to dissolution, and even fewer provide evidence on these …

Research on the consequences of young adults' extended coresidence with parents
indicates that coresident singles marry later, with a recent study specifically attributing this …