期刊
POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT REVIEW
卷 47, 期 3, 页码 719-747出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/padr.12425
关键词
Transition to adulthood; Union Formation; Fertility; Sequence Analysis; Cluster Analysis; Demographic and Health Surveys; Low- and Middle-Income Countries
资金
- University of Pennsylvania
- University of Oxford (Nuffield College)
- Bocconi University
- Centro de Estudios Demograficos (CED) at the Universitat Autnoma de Barcelona
- NSF [1729185]
- ERC [694262, 681546]
- Population Studies Center
- University Foundation at the University of Pennsylvania
- John Fell Fund
- Nuffield College at the University of Oxford
- ERC Consolidator Grant GENPOP [865356]
- ESRC Research Centre on Micro-Social Change [ES/S012486/1]
- BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants [SRG18R1\181165]
- School of Arts at McGill University
- European Research Council (ERC) [865356] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)
This study examines whether young people in LMICs have experienced life course destandardization similar to that observed in high-income societies, using DHS data from 263 surveys across 69 countries. The study focuses on women's transition to adulthood patterns and identifies clusters of TTA, finding significant differences by macro-regions but relative stability across cohorts. The findings suggest that cultural specificities may make TTA resistant to change and slow to converge across regions, with differences in transition timing playing a larger role than duration between events.
This study investigates whether young people in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) have experienced processes of destandardization of the life course similar to those observed in high-income societies. We provide two contributions to the relevant literature. First, we use data from 263 Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) across 69 LMICs, offering the richest comparative account to date of women's transition to adulthood (TTA) patterns in the developing world. In so doing, we adopt sequence analysis and shift the focus from individual life-course events-namely first sexual intercourse, first union, and first birth-to a visually appealing approach that allows us to describe interrelations among events. By focusing on the analysis of trajectories rather than the occurrence of single events, the study provides an in-depth focus on the timing of events, time intervals between events, and how experiencing (or not) one event might have consequences for subsequent markers in the TTA in cross-national comparative perspective. Second, we identify clusters of TTA and explore their changes across cohorts by region and household location of residence (rural vs. urban). We document significant differences by macro-regions, yet relative stability across cohorts. We interpret the latter as suggestive of cultural specificities that make the TTA resistant to change and slow to converge across regions, if converging at all. Also, we find that much of the difference across cluster typologies ensues from variation related to when the transition begins (early vs. late), rather than from the duration between events, which tends to be uniformly quick across three out of four clusters.
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