This CPC webinar will be held on Thursday 20 October at 12:00 BST. Ewa Batyra from the Centre for Demographic Studies in Barcelona will be giving a talk entitled, "Unequal Transitions to Adulthood in Low- and Middle-Income Countries"
Abstract
Research on the timing of events during transition to adulthood, such as first union formation, sexual initiation, and first birth, in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) focused predominately on measures of central tendency, notably median or mean ages. In this work, they adopt a different perspective on this topic by examining variation and disparities in the timing of these events within African, Asian and Latin American countries. Their results show that within-country disparities in the timing of first union and birth grew in West Africa and Latin America, and women who experience these events relatively early increasingly lag behind women who experience them relatively late. This research highlights that documenting trends in measures of central tendency is insufficient to capture the complexity of ongoing changes because they mask growing disparities in the timing of family formation across many LMICs.
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