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Intro -- Dedication -- Preface -- Contents -- Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Maps -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: A Geography of Cohabitation in the Americas, 1970-2010 -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Motivation for a Map -- 3 The Making of the Map of Cohabitation -- 3.1 Gathering the Data -- 3.2 Identifying Unmarried Cohabitation -- 4 The Increase in Cohabitation in the Americas from a Regional Perspective -- 5 The Local View for 2000 and 2010 -- 6 Cohabitation in the Andean States -- 7 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 2: The Rise of Cohabitation in Latin America and the Caribbean, 1970-2011 -- 1 Introduction -- 2 "Old" and "New" Cohabitation -- 3 The Latin American Cohabitation Boom: The National Trends -- 4 The Education Gradient -- 5 Explaining the Rise in Cohabitation -- 5.1 Cohabitation as a Response to Economic Shocks -- 5.2 Lifting the Stigma: Cohabitation and Ideational Change -- 6 The Family Context of Cohabitation and Single Motherhood -- 7 Conclusions -- Appendix -- References -- Chapter 3: Cohabitation and Marriage in Canada. The Geography, Law and Politics of Competing Views on Gender Equality -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Terminology: Language Matters -- 3 Previous Research -- 4 Legal Context -- 5 Consensual Union as a Function of Age and Education -- 6 Hypotheses -- 7 Data and Methods -- 7.1 The Economic Role of the Woman in the Couple -- 7.2 The Level of Economic Security -- 7.3 Values -- 8 Results -- 8.1 The Economic Role of the Woman in the Couple -- 8.2 The Level of Economic Security -- 8.3 Values -- 9 Discussion -- 10 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: The Social Geography of Unmarried Cohabitation in the USA, 2007-2011 -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Social Context and the Meaning of Cohabitation -- 3 Some Major Differentials in the Incidence of Current Cohabitation, 1990-2011.

This open access book presents an innovative study of the rise of unmarried cohabitation in the Americas, from Canada to Argentina. Using an extensive sample of individual census data for nearly all countries on the continent, it offers a cross-national, comparative view of this recent demographic trend and its impact on the family. The book offers a tour of the historical legacies and regional heterogeneity in unmarried cohabitation, covering: Canada, the United States, Mexico, Central America, Colombia, the Andean region, Brazil, and the Southern Cone. It also explores the diverse meanings of cohabitation from a cross-national perspective and examines the theoretical implications of recent developments on family change in the Americas. The book uses data from the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series, International (IPUMS), a project dedicated to collecting and distributing census data from around the world. This large sample size enables an empirical testing of one of the currently most powerful explanatory frameworks for changes in family formation around the world, the theory of the Second Demographic Transition. With its unique geographical scope, this book will provide researchers with a new understanding into the spectacular rise in premarital cohabitation in the Americas, which has become one of the most salient trends in partnership formation in the region.