Very little is known about recent trends in divorce in Japan. In this paper, we use Japanese vital statistics and census data to describe trends in the experience of marital dissolution across the life course, and to examine change over time in educational differentials in divorce. Cumulative probabilities of marital dissolution have increased rapidly across successive marriage cohorts over the past twenty years, and synthetic period estimates suggest that roughly one-third of Japanese marriages are now likely to end in divorce. Estimates of educational differentials also indicate a rapid increase in the extent to which divorce is concentrated at lower levels of education. While educational differentials were negligible in 1980, by 2000, wo...
As is the case in Western countries, more Japanese are marrying later or remaining unmarried and are...
In this paper, we use nationally representative data to describe basic characteristics of cohabiting...
In a series of papers, William J. Goode argued that the relationship between modernization and the c...
Recent data suggest that overall divorce rates in the United States have been declining since the 19...
Recent data suggest that overall divorce rates in the United States have been declining since the 19...
Background: While social gradient in divorce has been explored in many Western societies, this issue...
In this paper I address two critical questions about divorce in postwar Japan: Why is the divorce ra...
Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to explain variations in the divorce rates across prefectures...
This paper undertakes a time series analysis of the Japanese divorce rate using annual data over the...
In this research, I examine rapid changes in Japanese marriage timing over the past 20--30 years. Us...
In the United States, Europe, and East Asia, we find signs that divorce is declining among the most ...
As is the case in Western countries, more Japanese are marrying later or remaining unmarried and are...
Changing economic and social conditions at the beginning of the twentieth century created public con...
Various papers have shown that in countries and cohorts where the rate of divorce is low, women with...
As is the case in Western countries, more Japanese are marrying later or remaining unmarried and are...
As is the case in Western countries, more Japanese are marrying later or remaining unmarried and are...
In this paper, we use nationally representative data to describe basic characteristics of cohabiting...
In a series of papers, William J. Goode argued that the relationship between modernization and the c...
Recent data suggest that overall divorce rates in the United States have been declining since the 19...
Recent data suggest that overall divorce rates in the United States have been declining since the 19...
Background: While social gradient in divorce has been explored in many Western societies, this issue...
In this paper I address two critical questions about divorce in postwar Japan: Why is the divorce ra...
Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to explain variations in the divorce rates across prefectures...
This paper undertakes a time series analysis of the Japanese divorce rate using annual data over the...
In this research, I examine rapid changes in Japanese marriage timing over the past 20--30 years. Us...
In the United States, Europe, and East Asia, we find signs that divorce is declining among the most ...
As is the case in Western countries, more Japanese are marrying later or remaining unmarried and are...
Changing economic and social conditions at the beginning of the twentieth century created public con...
Various papers have shown that in countries and cohorts where the rate of divorce is low, women with...
As is the case in Western countries, more Japanese are marrying later or remaining unmarried and are...
As is the case in Western countries, more Japanese are marrying later or remaining unmarried and are...
In this paper, we use nationally representative data to describe basic characteristics of cohabiting...
In a series of papers, William J. Goode argued that the relationship between modernization and the c...