The Rise of Cohabitation in the Southern Cone

Binstock, Georgina; Cabella, Wanda; Salinas, Viviana; López-Colás, Julián

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-31442-6_9

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“…The direction and magnitude of the changes in the demographic indicators of family life in Uruguay have also been observed in the rest of the Southern Cone countries (Binstock and Cabella 2011;Binstock et al 2016). Family changes in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay mainly respond to an ideational change, based on individual autonomy and tolerance to individual preferences (Binstock and Cabella 2011).…”

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The effect of union dissolution on the fertility of women in Montevideo, Uruguay

Soto¹,

Laplante²

2020

DemRes

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BACKGROUND In Uruguay, the recent phase of fertility decline started in the late 1990s, a decade after deep changes in the family dynamics took root in the country. The order and timing of the two phenomena gave weight to the notion that the changes in the family dynamics caused fertility to drop below population replacement level. OBJECTIVE Our goal is to assess whether or not separation, divorce, and repartnering have been related to the recent decrease in fertility in Uruguay. METHODS We use data from a retrospective survey and a three-pronged strategy: (1) we compare the contribution to fertility and its evolution across cohorts of three broad steps of the conjugal history; (2) we estimate the effect of each of these steps on the hazard of having the next child; (3) we predict and compare the fertility, actual and counterfactual, of women who ended and women who did not end their first union. We investigate especially how union dissolution affects fertility and how patterns vary by educational levels. RESULTS Ending the first union reduces the fertility of Uruguayan women, and this reduction was larger among the low-educated women from the oldest cohort than it is in the youngest one. It could be very small among the highly educated of the youngest cohort. CONTRIBUTION We show that among Uruguayan women, the negative effect of union dissolution on fertility seems to decrease as dissolution becomes more common and occurs earlier, and

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The effect of union dissolution on the fertility of women in Montevideo, Uruguay

Soto¹,

Laplante²

2020

DemRes

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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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“…A small increase in the proportion of cohabiting births ensued very recently after 2013, such that in 2015 40% of births occurred within cohabitations and 35% were to single mothers. Thus, along with a "cohabitation boom" (Covre-Sussai et al 2015;Binstock et al 2016;Esteve et al 2016, p. 34) a similar "singlehood boom" has occurred as a context for childbearing since 1990. The decline in marital fertility has resulted in an increase in cohabiting and single fertility in equal proportions.…”

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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 decline of marriage (OECD, 2018), the rise of cohabitation (Binstock et al, 2016), and the increase in nonmarital childbearing (INE, 2002(INE, , 2017 have transformed Chilean families more rapidly than families in other Latin American countries (Ramm, 2016;Salinas, 2016). Within just a few decades, the crude marriage rate dropped almost half (from 6.6 in 1992 to 3.4 in 2015) and the proportion of children born to unmarried parents increased from 49% in 2000 to 72% in 2015 (INE, 2002(INE, , 2017OECD, 2019).…”

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Testing the Economic Independence Hypothesis: Union Formation Among Single Mothers in Chile

Cuesta

Reynolds

2021

Journal of Family Issues

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Despite the increasing proportion of single-mother families, the literature on union formation among unpartnered parents in Latin America is scant. Using a sample from a Chilean longitudinal survey ( N = 3,318), we estimated regression models to test associations between single mothers’ economic resources in 2010 and coresidence with the biological father of their children in 2012. We also examined whether these associations differed in subgroups with higher rates of labor market participation. We found that mothers’ paid work was not associated with union formation. Receiving government benefits and living with a parent were associated with lower probability of coresidence with the biological father, even among the most advantaged subgroups. We conclude that in contexts in which most mothers of young children are not doing paid work, economic resources coming from government and extended family may be more consequential than earnings’ potential in influencing single mothers’ union formation behavior.

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The Rise of Cohabitation in the Southern Cone

Cited by 12 publications

References 13 publications

The effect of union dissolution on the fertility of women in Montevideo, Uruguay

The effect of union dissolution on the fertility of women in Montevideo, Uruguay

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

Testing the Economic Independence Hypothesis: Union Formation Among Single Mothers in Chile

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