@article{oai:nichibun.repo.nii.ac.jp:00006153,
 author = {KOJIMA, Hiroshi},
 journal = {Nichibunken Japan review : bulletin of the International Research Center for Japanese Studies},
 month = {Jan},
 note = {This study attempts to clarify the effects of sib size, birth order and the possession of older brothers, older sisters, younger brothers, or younger sisters on first marriage formation in Japan.  Twelve sociological demographic and psychological hypotheses are presented and examined with regard to their effects on three outcomes in each age segment: getting married through arranged marriage, getting married through love marriage and staying never-married.
P. Allison's discrete-time event-history analysis (using multinomial logit model) is applied to the merged data of never-married and first-married persons aged 18-34 from the 1982 national fertility survey conducted by the Institute of Population Problems in order to simultaneously examine the effects of sibling configuration on both the timing and the two mate selection methods of first marriage (first marriage probability by mate variables with another set, age, and prenuptial living arrangements.  The results seem to support the Parental Control Hypothesis and the Acquaintance Opportunity Hypothesis for both sexes and the Normative Order Hypothesis for females.  Other hypotheses including the Household Crowding Hypotheses and the Demand for Children Hypothesis also seem to have limited support.},
 pages = {187--209},
 title = {Determinants of First Marital Formation in Japan : Does the Sibling Configuration Matter?},
 volume = {5},
 year = {1994}
}