Thursday, April 30 / 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM   •   Sapphire Ballroom H

Session 88:
Attitudes and Expectations in Family Formation

Chair: Laryssa Mykyta, U.S. Census Bureau
Discussant: Adrianne Frech, University of Akron

  1. Religion, Marriage Markets, and Assortative Mating in the United StatesDavid McClendon, University of Texas at Austin

  2. The Intergenerational Transmission of Marital Expectations and Age at First Marriage: Evidence from Mothers and Children in the NLSY79 and NLSY79 Young AdultsRachel R. Brown, Ohio State University ; Claire M. Kamp Dush, Ohio State University

  3. Older Adult Attitudes toward Cohabitation: Two Decades of ChangeSusan L. Brown, Bowling Green State University ; Matthew Wright, Bowling Green State University

  4. Attitudes towards Unmarried Cohabitation in EuropeLívia Murinkó, Hungarian Demographic Research Institute ; Zsolt Spéder, Hungarian Demographic Research Institute

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