Entry to Marriage and Cohabitation in Russia, 1985–2000: Trends, Correlates, and Implications for the Second Demographic Transition

Theodore P. Gerber () and Danielle Berman
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Theodore P. Gerber: University of Wisconsin
Danielle Berman: University of Wisconsin

European Journal of Population, 2010, vol. 26, issue 1, No 2, 3-31

Abstract: Abstract Recent decades have witnessed declining marriage rates and increasing cohabitation in Russia. Are these trends short-term responses to the economic and political crises accompanying the collapse of the Soviet Union in late 1991 or do they represent a longer-term shift driven by ideational changes like those shaping the “second demographic transition” in many developed countries since the 1960s? Our analyses of individual-level rates of entry to first marriage and cohabitation using 3,510 marital histories spanning 1985–2000 from the Survey of Stratification and Migration Dynamics in Russia show that the precise timing of these trends, the patterns of association between marriage and cohabitation rates and individual and contextual covariates, and the relationship between cohabitation and marriage entry mostly confirm the “transition” perspective. However, although Russia’s retreat from marriage, an especially radical departure from historically predominant patterns, involves ideational changes, the mechanisms driving these changes in Russia differ from those identified in accounts of the second demographic transition in other countries.

Keywords: Marriage; Cohabitation; Second demographic transition; Russia; Mariage; Cohabitation; Deuxième transition démographique; Russie (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1007/s10680-009-9196-8

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