CONJUGAL TRAJECTORIES, FAMILY STRUCTURES AND SOCIAL VULNERABILITY: A look at three generations of women in the City of Buenos Aires

María Victoria Rosino, María Solana Cucher, María Florencia Ruiz and Mariano Tommasi

No 4759, Asociación Argentina de Economía Política: Working Papers from Asociación Argentina de Economía Política

Abstract: Family structure and characteristics are considered an important factor in the reproduction of social inequalities. It has been documented that family structure and its stability correlate with various measures of well-being for children and adults (specially women) involved. In this paper we use a retrospective survey for the City of Buenos Aires involving three different cohorts of women, to explore their conjugal and fertility trajectories. We describe those trajectories with a vector of variables that expand the notion of “fragile families” and use cluster analysis to characterize these trajectories. We find that our indicator of fragility correlates well with variables capturing social vulnerability both in the families of origin as well as in the women's own trajectories. Other findings include an increase in "modern" lifestyles across cohorts, as captured by our indicators; a rise in educational attainment, with non-university tertiary education increasing before university education, indicating a transitional effect; and a higher likelihood of adopting "modern" lifestyles among women whose mothers were the main breadwinners.

JEL-codes: I3 J1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 37 pages
Date: 2024-11
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