The effects of cohabitation on family formation in Asia and Europe

This study presents the results from a comparative analysis of the effects of premarital cohabitation on the timing of family formation in Asia and Europe, applying proportional hazard models to microdata from the 2009 (Japan, South Korea and Singapore) and 2005 (Japan, South Korea, France, Sweden and the U.S.) surveys on family policy, which were conducted by the Cabinet Office (Japanese Government). The results reveal that premarital cohabitation tends to have positive (hastening) effects on the timing of marriage and childbearing among Japanese men and women as well as Singaporean women, but negative effects on the timing of childbearing among Korean men and women. While premarital cohabitation tends to have negative (delaying) effects on the timing of childbearing among male and female college graduates in Japan and female college graduates in Singapore, it tends to have positive effects among male college graduates in South Korea. Premarital cohabitation has positive effects on the timing of marriage and childbearing among French men and Swedish men and women. It also has a positive effect on the timing of marriage among French women including college graduates and a negative effect on the timing of marriage among Swedish male college graduates.

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