Cohabitation and Marriage in The Americas: Geo-Historical Legacies and New Trends

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 t...

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