Abstract
This paper analyzes how increases in life expectancy have, in several ways, reorganized the individual life-course during the last century ( 1900-1990) in Brazil and Mexico. In each society, couple and family relationships, domestic positions, household’s composition and structure, domestic resources and institutional mediations are in interplay with survival and generational patterns. A higher life expectancy extends the duration of the individual trajectories, successive cohorts of men and women survive longer, different generations survive together, differences by gender emerge, and domestic relationships conform a mix of types of households. The household structure has changed while people survive until advanced ages, their adult children leave the parents’ household and older people live alone as a couple and then, after the death of one of the partners, they live as a widow or widower. On the other hand, socioeconomic and institutional conditions are different in each society, drafting specific settings that can promote or limit the household members’ opportunities. Individuals of different cohorts reproduce norms and resources according to different phases of the demographic transition and institutional properties in specific historical time.
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