Abstract
Abstract Over the past twenty years, there have been dramatic changes in patterns of family formation and dissolution in developed countries. In Western Europe, North America, and Australia people have been marrying later and consensual unions (cohabitation without marriage) have become more common. Women in all developed countries have been changing the timing of childbearing over their lives, and it seems likely that recent generations of mothers will end up having smaller families than those in which they grew up. As the decline in fertility followed prolonged baby booms in most countries, the size of cohorts entering labour- and marriage-markets has changed dramatically.
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