Friday, April 12 / 10:15 AM - 11:45 AM   •   Grand Couteau

Session 120:
Trends and Variability in Unions

Chair: Rose M. Kreider, U.S. Census Bureau
Discussant: Jeremy E. Uecker, Baylor University

  1. Two Decades of Stability and Change in Age at First Union FormationWendy D. Manning, Bowling Green State University ; Susan L. Brown, Bowling Green State University ; Krista Payne, Bowling Green State University

  2. Unmarried Cohabitation in the Americas: Unveiling the Spatial DimensionAntonio López-Gay, Centre d'Estudis Demogràfics (CED) ; Ron J. Lesthaeghe, University of Michigan and University of California, Irvine ; Benoît Laplante, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS) ; Julián López-Colás, Centre d'Estudis Demogràfics (CED) ; Anna Turu, Centre d'Estudis Demogràfics (CED) ; Albert Esteve, Centre d'Estudis Demogràfics (CED)

  3. Metropolitan Context and Racial-Ethnic Marriage Patterns among Young AdultsLaquitta M. Smith Walker, Arizona State University

  4. Marriage Patterns of Black Women: Education, Competition and the Shortage of Available MenKalina Staub, Duke University

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