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Ethnic differentials in the timing of family formation

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  • Heather Booth

    (Australian National University)

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Ethnic differentials in the timing of family formation in Fiji cannot be adequately explained by the norms, characteristics, minority group, and interaction hypotheses. The missing dimensions are socioeconomic level within ethnicity and time, including the marriage market effects of fertility transition. A complex interaction of factors involves underlying norms and the opposing effects of modernisation, including the interaction between socioeconomic level and ethnicity, and the changing marriage market pressures determined by the ethnically differentiated fertility decline consistent with the minority group hypothesis. Within each ethnicity, marriage market pressures are concentrated at lower socioeconomic levels, resulting in decreasing trends in age at marriage, and increased socioeconomic differentiation.

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  • Heather Booth, 2010. "Ethnic differentials in the timing of family formation," Demographic Research, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany, vol. 23(7), pages 153-190.
    • Handle: RePEc:dem:demres:v:23:y:2010:i:7
    DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2010.23.7
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    1. Jianghua Liu & Virpi Lummaa, 2014. "An evolutionary approach to change of status–fertility relationship in human fertility transition," Behavioral Ecology, International Society for Behavioral Ecology, vol. 25(1), pages 102-109.
    2. Kazenin, Konstantin (Казенин, Константин), 2018. "The Impact of Migration on Fertility: An Overview of Foreign Research [Влияние Миграции На Рождаемость: Обзор Зарубежных Исследований]," Working Papers 041804, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration.

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