Thursday, March 31 / 1:30 PM - 3:20 PM   •   Virginia Suite AB

Session 41:
Families in Comparative Perspective

Chair: Rukmalie Jayakody, Pennsylvania State University
Discussant: Jeffrey Bingenheimer, George Washington University

  1. Single Motherhood in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Life Course Perspective • Shelley Clark, McGill University ; Dana Hamplova, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic

  2. Institutional Change and Family Formation. Exploiting the Natural Social Experiment of the Reunification of East and West Germany in 1989 • Anette E. Fasang, Yale University ; Joerg Luedicke, Yale University ; Karl Ulrich Mayer, Yale University

  3. The Relationship between Sex Ratios and Marriage Rates in South Africa • Dorrit Posel, University of Kwazulu-Natal ; Daniela Casale, University of Kwazulu-Natal

  4. Marriage and the Global Economic Crisis • Daniel Schneider, Princeton University

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