Family demography, descriptive trends:
- 2022. Updates of selected figures from Smock and Schwartz (2020) “The Demography of Families: A Review of Patterns and Change.”
- 2022. Trends in the characteristics of single vs. married men and women, 1940-2019.
Click on the titles of articles below for data and documentation:
- 2023. “Lifetime Years Married Held Steady for Men with a BA Degree Since 1960 but Dropped to Lowest Level Since 1880 for Men Without a BA.”
- 2021. “Opportunity and Change in Occupational Assortative Mating“
- 2020. “Years Spent as Mothers of Young Children: The Role of Completed Fertility, Birth Spacing, and Multiple Partner Fertility“
- 2016. “Marrying Up by Marrying Down: Status Exchange between Social Original and Education in the United States“
- 2010. “Earnings Inequality and the Changing Association Between Spouses’ Earnings“
- 2009. “Assortative Matching Among Same-Sex and Different-Sex Couples in the United States, 1990-2000“
- 2005. “Trends in Educational Assortative Marriage From 1940 to 2003“