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Marriage Decline

Marriage Decline is a demographic construct that denotes the sustained reduction in the prevalence and incidence of marriage within a population, distinguished from related family change phenomena by its specific focus on the diminishing tendency to enter marital unions.

485

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37.8K

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801

Authors

357

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2017–2026

85

Variants

Decline In Marriage

Parents

Publications

485

The deinstitutionalization of American marriage

Andrew J. Cherlin · Journal of Marriage and the Family · 2004 · 1.7K citations

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Five Decades of Educational Assortative Mating

Robert D. Mare · American Sociological Review · 1991 · 1.2K citations

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Marriage, Divorce, Remarriage.

Marilyn Rueschemeyer, Andrew J. Cherlin · Social Forces · 1983 · 783 citations

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Women's Employment and the Gain to Marriage: The Specialization and Trading Model

Valerie Kincade Oppenheimer · Annual Review of Sociology · 1997 · 768 citations

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Re‐theorizing Family Demographics

Gøsta Esping‐Andersen, Francesco C. Billari · Population and Development Review · 2015 · 745 citations · Full text

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Authors

801

  1. AJ
    Andrew J. Cherlin

    Johns Hopkins University, United States

    10 publications · 3.9K citations

    10

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  2. GW
    Gavin W. Jones

    Australian National University, Australia

    9 publications · 986 citations

    9

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  3. JM
    James M. Raymo

    University of Wisconsin–Madison, United States

    7 publications · 1.2K citations

    7

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  4. SM
    Sara McLanahan

    Princeton University, United States

    5 publications · 783 citations

    5

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  5. NG
    Nezih Guner

    Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain

    5 publications · 265 citations

    5

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Institutions

357

  1. Pennsylvania State University

    State College, United States

    13 h-index

    20 publications

    4K citations

  2. University of Pennsylvania

    Philadelphia, United States

    12 h-index

    15 publications

    1.5K citations

  3. Princeton University

    Princeton, United States

    11 h-index

    18 publications

    2.7K citations

  4. National University of Singapore

    Singapore, Singapore

    9 h-index

    10 publications

    1.6K citations

  5. University of Michigan

    Ann Arbor, United States

    9 h-index

    11 publications

    1.6K citations

  6. National Bureau of Economic Research

    Cambridge, United States

    9 h-index

    14 publications

    768 citations

  7. University of Chicago

    Chicago, United States

    8 h-index

    10 publications

    638 citations

  8. University of Wisconsin–Madison

    Madison, United States

    8 h-index

    9 publications

    2.9K citations

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Venues

  1. Journal of Marriage and the Family

    50 publications · 8.8K citations

    41

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  2. Demographic Research

    22 publications · 1.8K citations

    19

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  3. Demography

    20 publications · 2K citations

    19

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  4. Journal of Biosocial Science

    JBS · 16 publications · 854 citations

    15

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  5. Population Studies

    17 publications · 1.5K citations

    15

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