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THIS RESEARCH PROJECT IS CURRENTLY INACTIVE.
Throughout most of the industrial and post-industrial world, changes in marriage, fertility, and child rearing over the past half century have had profound effects on public policy and family life, ranging from the fiscal viability of government-run old-age pension schemes to the well-being of children. These family behavioral changes have occurred in a context of major structural changes in economies, education systems, and other institutions.
Researchers in this collaborative project examined attitudes and behavior in areas of education, marriage and cohabitation, divorce, childbearing, childcare, employment, and relationships with parents and children, using national survey data from Japan, South Korea, other Asian countries, and the United States.
A major component examined patterns of rapid diffusion of innovation among young adults in Japan, based on National Surveys on Family and Economic Conditions. This study explored the diffusion of selected innovative family behaviors that are rare in Japan today, including childbearing outside of marriage, cohabitation without marriage, remaining unmarried throughout the childbearing years, and use of childcare centers for very young children. A high level of acceptance of non-traditional behaviors can reinforce the diffusion of such behaviors. The project examined how attitudes toward non-traditional behaviors may be changing by examining differences in attitudes among age cohorts and other groups. The attitudes examined relate to marriage, parenthood, and gender roles.
The project also examined the patterns of change in family behavior and the relationship to changes in economic conditions, education systems, and other institutions in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and the United States. Behaviors including marriage, childbearing, divorce, cohabitation, gender division of labor, and intergenerational relationships were examined through analyses of national survey data.
The project was partially funded by a grant from the U.S. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. In addition to East-West Center staff members, project researchers included:
- Noriko O. Tsuya, Professor, Faculty of Economics, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan
- Larry L. Bumpass, Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Madison
- Samsik Lee, Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs, Seoul, Korea
Selected Publications
2019
Tsuya, Noriko O., Minja Kim Choe, and Feng Wang (2019). Convergence to very low fertility in East Asia: Processes, causes, and implications. Tokyo: Springer Japan.
2018
Gietel-Basten, Stuart, John Casterline, and Minja Kim Choe, eds. (2018). Family demography in Asia: A Comparative analysis of fertility preferences. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar.
2017
Tsuya, Noriko O. (2017). Low fertility in Japan—no end in sight. AsiaPacific Issues No. 131. Honolulu: East-West Center.
Wang Feng (2017). Policy response to low fertility in China: Too little, too late? AsiaPacific Issues No. 130. Honolulu: East-West Center.
2016
Rindfuss, Ronald R., and Minja Kim Choe, eds. (2016). Low fertility, institutions, and their policies: Variations across industrialized countries. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing.
Rindfuss, Ronald R., and Minja Kim Choe (2016). Diverse paths to low and lower fertility: An overview. In Ronald R. Rindfuss and Minja Kim Choe, eds. Low fertility, institutions, and their policies: Variations across industrialized countries. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing, pp. 1−12.
Rindfuss, Ronald R., Minja Kim Choe, and Sarah R. Brauner-Otto (2016). The emergence of two distinct fertility regimes in economically advanced countries. Population Research and Policy Review. 35(3):287−304. DOI 10.1007/s11113-016-9387-z.
Roberts, Glenda S. (2016). Japan’s evolving family: Voices from young urban adults navigating change. Honolulu: East-West Center.
2015
Eun, Ki-Soo, Hyuna Moon, and Minja Kim Choe, eds. (2015). Modern Korean family: A sourcebook. Seoul: Academy of Korean Studies Press.
Rindfuss, Ronald R., and Minja Kim Choe, eds. (2015). Low and lower fertility: Variations across developed countries. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing.
Rindfuss, Ronald R., and Minja Kim Choe (2015). Diversity across low-fertility countries: An overview. In Ronald R. Rindfuss and Minja Kim Choe, eds. Low and lower fertility: Variations across developed countries. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing, pp. 1−13.
Rindfuss, Ronald R., Minja K. Choe, Noriko O. Tsuya, Larry L. Bumpass, and Emi Tamaki (2015).Do low survey response rates bias results? Evidence from Japan. Demographic Research. 32(26): 797−828.
2014
Choe, Minja Kim, and Hyung-Seog Kim (2014). Lowest-low fertility in the Republic of Korea: Variations by locality, 2000-2010. Asia-Pacific Population Journal. 29(2): 5−24.
Choe, Minja Kim, Larry L. Bumpass, Noriko O. Tsuya, and Ronald R. Rindfuss (2014). Non-traditional family-related attitude trends in Japan: Macro and micro determinants. Population and Development Review. 40(2): 241−71.
2012
Tsuya, Noriko O., Larry L. Bumpass, Minja Kim Choe, and Ronald R. Rindfuss (2012). Employment and housework tasks of Japanese couples, 1994-2009. Demographic Research. 27:705−18.
2011
Choe, Minja Kim, and Lei Li (2011). Estimating the effects of education on later marriage and less marriage in South Korea: An application of a mixture survival model with proportional piecewise constant hazard. Journal of Applied Statistical Science. 18(4): 103−15.
2010
Chen, Jiajian, Robert D. Retherford, Minja Kim Choe, and Li Xiru (2010). Effects of population policy and economic reform on the trend in fertility in Guangdong Province, China, 1975–2005. Population Studies. 64(1): 43−60.
Rindfuss, Ronald D., Minja Kim Choe, Maria Midea M. Kabamalan, Noriko O. Tsuya, and Larry L. Bumpass (2010). Order amidst change: Work and family trajectories in Japan. Advances in Life Course Research. 15:76−88.
2009
Bumpass, Larry, Ronald R. Rindfuss, Minja Kim Choe, and Noriko O. Tsuya (2009). The institutional context of low fertility. Asian Population Studies. 5(3): 215−35.
Chen, Jiajian, Robert D. Retherford, Minja Kim Choe, Li Xiru, and Hu Ying (2009). Province-level variation in the achievement of below-replacement fertility in China. Asian Population Studies. 5(3): 309−28.
Choe, Minja Kim, and Robert D. Retherford (2009). The contribution of education to South Korea’s fertility decline to "lowest-low level". Asian Population Studies. 5(3): 267−88.
2007
Entwisle, Barbara, Katherine Faust, Ronald R. Rindfuss, and Toshiko Kaneda (2007). Networks and contexts: Variation in the structure of social ties. American Journal of Sociology. 112(5): 1495−1533.
2006
Choe, Minja Kim (2006). Modernization, gender roles and marriage behavior in South Korea. In Yun-Shik Chang and Steven Hugh Lee, eds. Transformations in Twentieth Century Korea. London: Routledge, pp. 291−309.
Choe, Minja Kim, and Kyung-Ae Park (2006). Fertility decline in South Korea: Forty years of policy-behavior dialogue. Korea Journal of Population Studies 29(2): 1−26.
2005
Tsuya, Noriko O., Larry L. Bumpass, Minja Kim Choe, and Ronald R. Rindfuss (2005). Is the gender division of work changing in Japan? Asian Population Studies 1(1): 47−67.
2004
Rindfuss, Ronald R., Minja Kim Choe, Larry L. Bumpass, and Noriko O. Tsuya (2004). Social networks and family change in Japan. American Sociological Review 69:838−61.
Tsuya, Noriko O., and Larry L. Bumpass, eds. (2004). Marriage, work, and family life in comparative perspective: Japan, South Korea, and the United States. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.
2003
Choe, Minja Kim, and Seung Kwon Kim (2003). Factors associated with low fertility in South Korea and policy implications (in Korean). In Seung Kwon Kim, ed. Study on the development of population policies and programs in responses to low fertility. Seoul: Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs, pp. 147−67.
Rindfuss, Ronald R., Karen Benjamin Guzzo, and S. Philip Morgan (2003). The changing institutional context of low fertility. Population Research and Policy Review 22(5−6): 411-38.
2002
Choe, Minja Kim, Sidney B. Westley, and Robert D. Retherford (2002). Tradition and change in marriage and family life. In East-West Center. The future of population in Asia. Honolulu: East-West Center.
2000
Brewster, Karin L., and Ronald R. Rindfuss (2000). Fertility and women's employment in industrialized nations. Annual Review of Sociology 26: 271−96.
THIS RESEARCH PROJECT IS CURRENTLY INACTIVE.
Throughout most of the industrial and post-industrial world, changes in marriage, fertility, and child rearing over the past half century have had profound effects on public policy and family life, ranging from the fiscal viability of government-run old-age pension schemes to the well-being of children. These family behavioral changes have occurred in a context of major structural changes in economies, education systems, and other institutions.
Researchers in this collaborative project examined attitudes and behavior in areas of education, marriage and cohabitation, divorce, childbearing, childcare, employment, and relationships with parents and children, using national survey data from Japan, South Korea, other Asian countries, and the United States.
A major component examined patterns of rapid diffusion of innovation among young adults in Japan, based on National Surveys on Family and Economic Conditions. This study explored the diffusion of selected innovative family behaviors that are rare in Japan today, including childbearing outside of marriage, cohabitation without marriage, remaining unmarried throughout the childbearing years, and use of childcare centers for very young children. A high level of acceptance of non-traditional behaviors can reinforce the diffusion of such behaviors. The project examined how attitudes toward non-traditional behaviors may be changing by examining differences in attitudes among age cohorts and other groups. The attitudes examined relate to marriage, parenthood, and gender roles.
The project also examined the patterns of change in family behavior and the relationship to changes in economic conditions, education systems, and other institutions in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and the United States. Behaviors including marriage, childbearing, divorce, cohabitation, gender division of labor, and intergenerational relationships were examined through analyses of national survey data.
The project was partially funded by a grant from the U.S. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. In addition to East-West Center staff members, project researchers included:
- Noriko O. Tsuya, Professor, Faculty of Economics, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan
- Larry L. Bumpass, Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Madison
- Samsik Lee, Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs, Seoul, Korea
Selected Publications
2019
Tsuya, Noriko O., Minja Kim Choe, and Feng Wang (2019). Convergence to very low fertility in East Asia: Processes, causes, and implications. Tokyo: Springer Japan.
2018
Gietel-Basten, Stuart, John Casterline, and Minja Kim Choe, eds. (2018). Family demography in Asia: A Comparative analysis of fertility preferences. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar.
2017
Tsuya, Noriko O. (2017). Low fertility in Japan—no end in sight. AsiaPacific Issues No. 131. Honolulu: East-West Center.
Wang Feng (2017). Policy response to low fertility in China: Too little, too late? AsiaPacific Issues No. 130. Honolulu: East-West Center.
2016
Rindfuss, Ronald R., and Minja Kim Choe, eds. (2016). Low fertility, institutions, and their policies: Variations across industrialized countries. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing.
Rindfuss, Ronald R., and Minja Kim Choe (2016). Diverse paths to low and lower fertility: An overview. In Ronald R. Rindfuss and Minja Kim Choe, eds. Low fertility, institutions, and their policies: Variations across industrialized countries. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing, pp. 1−12.
Rindfuss, Ronald R., Minja Kim Choe, and Sarah R. Brauner-Otto (2016). The emergence of two distinct fertility regimes in economically advanced countries. Population Research and Policy Review. 35(3):287−304. DOI 10.1007/s11113-016-9387-z.
Roberts, Glenda S. (2016). Japan’s evolving family: Voices from young urban adults navigating change. Honolulu: East-West Center.
2015
Eun, Ki-Soo, Hyuna Moon, and Minja Kim Choe, eds. (2015). Modern Korean family: A sourcebook. Seoul: Academy of Korean Studies Press.
Rindfuss, Ronald R., and Minja Kim Choe, eds. (2015). Low and lower fertility: Variations across developed countries. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing.
Rindfuss, Ronald R., and Minja Kim Choe (2015). Diversity across low-fertility countries: An overview. In Ronald R. Rindfuss and Minja Kim Choe, eds. Low and lower fertility: Variations across developed countries. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing, pp. 1−13.
Rindfuss, Ronald R., Minja K. Choe, Noriko O. Tsuya, Larry L. Bumpass, and Emi Tamaki (2015).Do low survey response rates bias results? Evidence from Japan. Demographic Research. 32(26): 797−828.
2014
Choe, Minja Kim, and Hyung-Seog Kim (2014). Lowest-low fertility in the Republic of Korea: Variations by locality, 2000-2010. Asia-Pacific Population Journal. 29(2): 5−24.
Choe, Minja Kim, Larry L. Bumpass, Noriko O. Tsuya, and Ronald R. Rindfuss (2014). Non-traditional family-related attitude trends in Japan: Macro and micro determinants. Population and Development Review. 40(2): 241−71.
2012
Tsuya, Noriko O., Larry L. Bumpass, Minja Kim Choe, and Ronald R. Rindfuss (2012). Employment and housework tasks of Japanese couples, 1994-2009. Demographic Research. 27:705−18.
2011
Choe, Minja Kim, and Lei Li (2011). Estimating the effects of education on later marriage and less marriage in South Korea: An application of a mixture survival model with proportional piecewise constant hazard. Journal of Applied Statistical Science. 18(4): 103−15.
2010
Chen, Jiajian, Robert D. Retherford, Minja Kim Choe, and Li Xiru (2010). Effects of population policy and economic reform on the trend in fertility in Guangdong Province, China, 1975–2005. Population Studies. 64(1): 43−60.
Rindfuss, Ronald D., Minja Kim Choe, Maria Midea M. Kabamalan, Noriko O. Tsuya, and Larry L. Bumpass (2010). Order amidst change: Work and family trajectories in Japan. Advances in Life Course Research. 15:76−88.
2009
Bumpass, Larry, Ronald R. Rindfuss, Minja Kim Choe, and Noriko O. Tsuya (2009). The institutional context of low fertility. Asian Population Studies. 5(3): 215−35.
Chen, Jiajian, Robert D. Retherford, Minja Kim Choe, Li Xiru, and Hu Ying (2009). Province-level variation in the achievement of below-replacement fertility in China. Asian Population Studies. 5(3): 309−28.
Choe, Minja Kim, and Robert D. Retherford (2009). The contribution of education to South Korea’s fertility decline to "lowest-low level". Asian Population Studies. 5(3): 267−88.
2007
Entwisle, Barbara, Katherine Faust, Ronald R. Rindfuss, and Toshiko Kaneda (2007). Networks and contexts: Variation in the structure of social ties. American Journal of Sociology. 112(5): 1495−1533.
2006
Choe, Minja Kim (2006). Modernization, gender roles and marriage behavior in South Korea. In Yun-Shik Chang and Steven Hugh Lee, eds. Transformations in Twentieth Century Korea. London: Routledge, pp. 291−309.
Choe, Minja Kim, and Kyung-Ae Park (2006). Fertility decline in South Korea: Forty years of policy-behavior dialogue. Korea Journal of Population Studies 29(2): 1−26.
2005
Tsuya, Noriko O., Larry L. Bumpass, Minja Kim Choe, and Ronald R. Rindfuss (2005). Is the gender division of work changing in Japan? Asian Population Studies 1(1): 47−67.
2004
Rindfuss, Ronald R., Minja Kim Choe, Larry L. Bumpass, and Noriko O. Tsuya (2004). Social networks and family change in Japan. American Sociological Review 69:838−61.
Tsuya, Noriko O., and Larry L. Bumpass, eds. (2004). Marriage, work, and family life in comparative perspective: Japan, South Korea, and the United States. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.
2003
Choe, Minja Kim, and Seung Kwon Kim (2003). Factors associated with low fertility in South Korea and policy implications (in Korean). In Seung Kwon Kim, ed. Study on the development of population policies and programs in responses to low fertility. Seoul: Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs, pp. 147−67.
Rindfuss, Ronald R., Karen Benjamin Guzzo, and S. Philip Morgan (2003). The changing institutional context of low fertility. Population Research and Policy Review 22(5−6): 411-38.
2002
Choe, Minja Kim, Sidney B. Westley, and Robert D. Retherford (2002). Tradition and change in marriage and family life. In East-West Center. The future of population in Asia. Honolulu: East-West Center.
2000
Brewster, Karin L., and Ronald R. Rindfuss (2000). Fertility and women's employment in industrialized nations. Annual Review of Sociology 26: 271−96.