The Rise of Cohabitation in Latin America and the Caribbean, 1970–2011

Esteve, Albert; Lesthaeghe, Ronny; López‐Gay, Antonio; Román, Joan García

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-31442-6_2

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“…Our other control variables include age, ethnic group, religion, place of residence (rural/urban), region, parental status, and socioeconomic groups. The choice of controls was based on the literature review of factors known to be associated with decisions about the type of conjugal union (some examples are: CASTRO-MARTÍN, 2002;COVRE-SUSSAI, 2016;COVRE-SUSSAI et al, 2015;ESTEVE et al, 2016;VERONA et al, 2015).…”

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“…Many authors have argued that cohabitation has been identified in Latin American countries at different intensities (AMADOR, 2016;CABELLA;SOTO, 2017;CASTRO-MARTÍN, 2002;COVRE-SUSSAI et al, 2015;ESTEVE et al, 2012ESTEVE et al, , 2016PARRADO;TIENDA, 1997;SAAVEDRA et al, 2013). Some of these studies claim that this would be a sign of SDT diffusion in the continent (ESTEVE et al, 2012), although others argue that such diffusion may be limited by historical patterns of class, ethnic group, and religion (see, for example, VERONA et al, 2015).…”

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Consensual conjugal unions among the higher educated women: understanding the heterogeneity of the Brazilian context

Cunha¹,

Verona

2022

Rev. bras. estud. popul.

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Consensual unions have increased greatly in Brazil over the last few decades. Initially, restricted to less-educated groups, they have now been observed in all educational groups, leading some to suggest a diffusion of the Second Demographic Transition (SDT) in the country. In this paper, we examine the characteristics of women choosing consensual unions in Brazil between 1980 and 2010, with a focus on differentials by education. The results show that higher educated women, when compared to the least educated group, prefer marriage over consensual union in both 1980 and 2010. In addition, we show a growing difference between educational groups over time for choosing informal unions, as the probabilities for higher educated women to choose this union type grew less than for the lower educated. For the women with high levels of education in 2010, the likelihood of being in a consensual union is greater among those from lower social classes, and among blacks, browns, and Catholics. These results suggest the replication of intergenerational behaviour as the most likely explanation for the increase in consensual unions among the most educated.

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Consensual conjugal unions among the higher educated women: understanding the heterogeneity of the Brazilian context

Cunha¹,

Verona

2022

Rev. bras. estud. popul.

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“…As shown by Bailey et al (2014), once cohabitations are factored in, the average age at first partnership for women born in the 1960s and 1970s is similar (around 22.5) to that observed pre-baby boom. The increase in cohabitations has been especially pronounced in Latin America, where, as argued by Esteve et al (2016), the cohabitation boom increased both in regions where legal marriages used to be prevalent and in areas where informal arrangements traditionally existed as an alternative to "European" marriages.…”

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Families, Labor Markets, and Policy

2022

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“…The increase in nonmarital fertility in Chile has occurred in the context of broad economic, institutional, demographic, and cultural transformations, including economic growth, the reestablishment of democracy, and educational expansion. In this period, the country also experienced a decline and postponement of fertility and ideational changes that destigmatize behaviors previously subject to strong normative restrictions such as nonmarital fertility, premarital cohabitation, divorce, abortion, and homosexuality (Binstock et al 2016;Esteve et al 2016). Normative liberalization is evident from attitudinal change.…”

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The Normativity of Marriage and the Marriage Premium for Children’s Outcomes

Torche

Abufhele

2021

American Journal of Sociology

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Children born to married parents have better health, behavioral, educational, and economic outcomes than children of unmarried mothers. This association, known as the "marriage premium," has been interpreted as emerging from the selectivity of parents who marry and from a positive effect of marriage. The authors suggest that the positive effect of marriage could be contextual, emerging from the normativity of marriage in society. They test this hypothesis using the case of Chile, where marital fertility dropped sharply from 66% of all births in 1990 to 27% in 2016.The authors find that the benefit of marriage for infant health was large in the early 1990s but declined as marital fertility became less normative in society, to fully disappear in 2016. Multivariate analysis of temporal variation, multilevel models of variation across place, sibling fixed effects models, and a falsification test consistently indicate that marriage has a beneficial effect when marital fertility is normative and a weak effect when is not. Generalizing from this case, the authors discuss contextual effects of diverse practices and statuses.

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The Rise of Cohabitation in Latin America and the Caribbean, 1970–2011

Cited by 16 publications

References 13 publications

Consensual conjugal unions among the higher educated women: understanding the heterogeneity of the Brazilian context

Consensual conjugal unions among the higher educated women: understanding the heterogeneity of the Brazilian context

Families, Labor Markets, and Policy

The Normativity of Marriage and the Marriage Premium for Children’s Outcomes

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