This review outlines several key aspects of the new rural-urban interface and the growing
interpenetration of American rural and urban life. The historical coincidence of spatial and …

… , Indian reservations, resource- and agricultural-dependent areas in Europe) provide natural
laboratories for studying comparative patterns of marriage and cohabitation (Lichter, 2013), …

▪ Abstract This paper evaluates a burgeoning literature on the effects of the 1996 welfare
reform bill. Our goal is to shift the debate from the current preoccupation with declining …

… D file of the 1980 US Census (Tolbert and Killian 1987) to measure mate availability in local
marriage markets. The PUMS-D … million records in the PUMS-D file are sufficient to generate …

Despite a large body of research on the household division of labor, surprisingly little is known
about how husbands and wives divide their family work time across a variety of domestic …

Interracial/interethnic marriage in America is a barometer of racial/ethnic relations and
intergroup social distance. Using data from the 5-percent Public Use Microdata Sample of the …

… Specifically, we identify sources of interarea variation in marriage rates using the newly
created D file of the Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS-D) from the 1980 decennial US census…

The winnowing hypothesis posits that transitions from dating to cohabiting to marital unions
are marked by increasing selectivity in the mate selection or matching process. In this paper, …

This article highlights the new racial and ethnic diversity in rural America, which may be the
most important but least anticipated population shift in recent demographic history. …

Current US government policy views marriage as an economic panacea for disadvantaged
unwed mothers. In this article, we use retrospective family life history data from the 1995 …