Session 120:
Trends and Variability in Unions
Friday, April 12
10:15 AM - 11:45 AM
Grand Couteau
5th Floor

Chair: Rose M. Kreider, U.S. Census Bureau
Discussant: Jeremy E. Uecker, Baylor University

  1. Two Decades of Stability and Change in Age at First Union Formation • Wendy D. Manning, Bowling Green State University; Susan L. Brown, Bowling Green State University; Krista Payne, Bowling Green State University

  2. Unmarried Cohabitation in the Americas: Unveiling the Spatial Dimension • Antonio López-Gay, Centre d'Estudis Demogràfics (CED); Ron J. Lesthaeghe, University of Michigan and University of California, Irvine; Benoît Laplante, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS); Julián López-Colás, Centre d'Estudis Demogràfics (CED); Anna Turu, Centre d'Estudis Demogràfics (CED); Albert Esteve, Centre d'Estudis Demogràfics (CED)

  3. Metropolitan Context and Racial-Ethnic Marriage Patterns among Young Adults • Laquitta M. Smith Walker, Arizona State University

  4. Marriage Patterns of Black Women: Education, Competition and the Shortage of Available Men • Kalina Staub, Duke University

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