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A geography of cohabitation in the Americas, 1970-2010 / Albert Esteve, Antonio López-Gay, Julián López-Colás, Iñaki Permanyer, Sheela Kennedy, Benoît Laplante, Ron J. Lestheadghe, Anna Turu, and Teresa Antònia Cusidó -- The rise of cohabitation in Latin America and the Caribbean, 1970-2011 / Albert Esteve, Ron J. Lesthaeghe, Antonio López-Gay, and Joan García-Román -- Cohabitation and marriage in Canada: the geography, law and politics of competing views on gender equality / Benoît Laplante and Ana Laura Fostik -- The social geography of unmarried cohabitation in the USA, 2007-2011 / Ron J. Lesthaeghe, Julián López-Colás, and Lisa Neidert -- The expansion of cohabitation in Mexico, 1930-2010: the revenge of history? / Albert Esteve, Ron J. Lesthaeghe, Julieta Quilodrán, Antonio López-Gay, and Julián López-Colás -- Consensual unions in Central America: historical continuities and new emerging patterns / Teresa Castro-Martín and Antía Domínguez-Rodríguez -- The boom of cohabitation in Colombia and in the Andean region: social and spatial patterns / Albert Esteve, A. Carolina Saavedra, Julián López-Colás, Antonio López-Gay, and Ron J. Lesthaeghe -- Cohabitation in Brazil: historical legacy and recent evolution / Albert Esteve, Ron J. Lesthaeghe, Julián López-Colás, Antonio López-Gay, and Maira Covre-Sussai -- The rise of cohabitation in the southern cone / Georgina Binstock, Wanda Cabella, Viviana Salinas, and Julián López-Colás -- Cohabitation: the pan-America view / Ron J. Lesthaeghe and Albert Esteve. |
| Summary |
This open access book presents an innovative study of the rise of unmarried cohabitation in the Americas, from Canada to Argentina. Using an extensive sample of individual census data for nearly all countries on the continent, it offers a cross-national, comparative view of this recent demographic trend and its impact on the family. The book offers a tour of the historical legacies and regional heterogeneity in unmarried cohabitation, covering: Canada, the United States, Mexico, Central America, Colombia, the Andean region, Brazil, and the Southern Cone. It also explores the diverse meanings of cohabitation from a cross-national perspective and examines the theoretical implications of recent developments on family change in the Americas. The book uses data from the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series, International (IPUMS), a project dedicated to collecting and distributing census data from around the world. This large sample size enables an empirical testing of one of the currently most powerful explanatory frameworks for changes in family formation around the world, the theory of the Second Demographic Transition. With its unique geographical scope, this book will provide researchers with a new understanding into the spectacular rise in premarital cohabitation in the Americas, which has become one of the most salient trends in partnership formation in the region. |
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SpringerLink Springer Nature Open Access eBooks |
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Marriage -- Research -- America.
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Marriage -- Population.
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Unmarried couples -- Population.
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Unmarried couples -- America -- Statistics.
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Marriage -- America -- Statistics.
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Marriage -- America -- History.
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Unmarried couples -- America -- History.
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Economics, finance, business and management.
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Economics.
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Gender studies, gender groups.
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Social groups.
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Society and culture: general.
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Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
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Marriage. (OCoLC)fst01010443
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Marriage -- Research. (OCoLC)fst01010521
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Unmarried couples. (OCoLC)fst01161977
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America. (OCoLC)fst01239786
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Statistics. (OCoLC)fst01423727
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| Added Author |
Esteve, Albert, editor.
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Lesthaeghe, Ron J., 1945- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Cohabitation and marriage in the Americas. Switzerland : Springer, 2016 3319314408 9783319314402 (OCoLC)940933336 |
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9783319314426 (electronic book) |
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3319314424 (electronic book) |
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9783319314402 |
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3319314408 |
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9783319314402 |
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3319314408 |
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9783319314402 |
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