Session 167:
The Family in Historical Perspective
Chair: Steven Ruggles, University of Minnesota
Discussant: Regina M. Bures, University at Albany, State University of New York
Demographic Rates and Household Change in the United States, 1900-2000 Gretchen Stockmayer, University of California, Berkeley
The Changing Marriage Gradient -- Trends in Currently Married Men and Women: 1940-2000 Berna S. Miller, Brown University
Marriage Squeeze and Changes in Family Formation: Historical Comparative Evidence from Spain, France, and United States during the Twentieth Century Anna Cabré, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona ; Albert Esteve, University of Minnesota
Creating an 'American' Marriage Pattern: Ethnic, Generational, and Cohort Variation in Union Formation in the Mid-Twentieth Century Sharon Sassler, Ohio State University ; Michael Cardella, Ohio State University
Other sessions on Marriage, Family and Households