We generated estimates of parental coresidence in Sweden from 1969-2007 using administrative registers. Register-based estimates compare very well to census reports that are more precise in terms of dwelling unit and date. Throughout the period, less than ten percent of births occurred outside...

In this paper, we use data from a retrospective biographical survey in Burkina Faso to examine the effect of divorce and widowhood of the mother on children’s risk of mortality under age 5 and on the probability of their entering primary school. The results from piecewise exponential...

Contrary to standard theoretical predictions, there is some evidence of a negative educational gradient in divorce in Japan. In this paper, we used marital history data from a cross-sectional survey to confirm that educational attainment is inversely related to divorce and to show that, in...

In spite of fairly symmetric parental roles in Norway, shared residence and father sole custody still constitute minority practices when parents split up. Survey data of parents living apart show that shared residence is particularly likely when the father has a reasonable income, the mother is...

The aim of this article is to analyse the determinants of marriage dissolution in Spain and their variation over time for women married between 1949 and 2006. Data are drawn from the Survey of Fertility, Family and Values of 2006. The article analyses the transition from first marriage to...

The objectives of this study are to produce up-to-date estimates of race/ethnic/nativity differentials for remarriage and repartnership among women in the United States and to see if these differences are due to across-group differences in demographic characteristics. First, we produce lifetable...