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标题：Disentangling how educational expansion did not increase women's age at union formation in Latin America from 1970 to 2000
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作者：Albert Esteve ; Luis Ángel López-Ruiz ; Jeroen Spijker 等
期刊名称：Demographic Research
印刷版ISSN：1435-9871
电子版ISSN：1435-9871
出版年度：2013
卷号：28
页码：63-76
DOI：10.4054/DemRes.2013.28.3
出版社：Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
摘要：Background: One of the most salient features of Latin American marriages over the last few decades is the stable timing of their union formation, despite educational expansion, the postponement of and retreat from marriage, and the increase in non-marital cohabitation. Objective: We examine why educational expansion did not influence the aggregated indicators of women's timing of union formation. Methods: We used recently harmonised international census microdata for eight Latin American countries from the 1970s to the 2000s. Results: The results from a logistic regression analysis show that this apparent stability was produced by contrasting shifts that occurred in various educational groups. In most countries the postponement effect that was expected from educational expansion was offset by earlier union formation (mostly through non-marital cohabitation) among the least educated (and formally largest) groups, whereas highly educated women showed no change.
关键词：age at union formation;cohabitation;educational expansion;Latin America;marriage