Marital intentions and realization around the Great Recession in the Netherlands, France and Hungary

Paper presented at the 5th Generations and Gender Programme User Conference, 23-24 October 2019, Paris, in the session "Partnerships and inequalities" Abstract Despite the persistence of the institution of marriage, analyses on marital intentions and their realization are relatively rare, especially in an international comparison. Moreover, most studies that look into the demographic consequences of the Great Recession concentrate on behaviour (often on fertility) and only few of them use individual-level panel data. Previous studies found reduced marriage rates and postponement as a result of... Mehr ...