Risk-avoidance or utmost commitment

2015/02/03 by Nicole Hiekel, Renske Keizer · 25 citations
Psychology · Social Sciences · #Cohabitation #Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences #Demographic economics #Demography #Economics #Family Dynamics and Relationships #Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving #Law #Political science #Psychology #Social psychology #Sociology

paper · pdf · doi:10.4054/demres.2015.32.10

published in Demographic Research 32, 311-340 (Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research)

openalex publication_date 2015/02/03 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/23

Abstract

Dutch adults grew up in a highly individualized country, characterized by high divorce rates, which may have influenced their views on cohabitation and marriage.

Citations

• A Theory of Marriage Timing
• Human Capital Investments or Norms of Role Transition? How Women's Schooling and Career Affect the Process of Family Formation
• Cultural Dynamics and Economic Theories of Fertility Change
• Sweeping Changes in Marriage, Cohabitation and Childbearing in Central and Eastern Europe: New Insights from the Developmental Idealism Framework
• The Specter of Divorce: Views From Working‐ and Middle‐Class Cohabitors
• “Everything's There Except Money”: How Money Shapes Decisions to Marry Among Cohabitors
• The Educational Gradient of Childbearing within Cohabitation in Europe

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• Cohabitation [wikipedia]

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