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Gender, age and the marriage market: evidence on marriage in late adulthood in Russia
Author(s)	C J Buckley
Journal title	Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology, vol 11, no 3, September 1996
Pages	pp 255-267
Keywords	Marriage ; Informal care ; Older women ; Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Annotation	This paper explores one specific type of informal support, marriage, and the ways in which patterns suggest differential access to this support mechanism. Through an examination of marriage patterns in the Russian Federation, the author shows that women may be disadvantaged by low levels of access to marital unions past the age of 50 due to high differential mortality and age differentials at marriage. For both sexes, the probability of marital entrance is negatively related to age, but the negative influence of age follows different paths for men and women. In spite of high sex differentials in mortality, findings indicate that men, over 50 and outside marital unions, are far more likely to marry than their female counterparts, regardless of residence or age. (AKM).
Accession Number	CPA-980513253 A
Classmark	SL: P6: BD: 7AA
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