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The article studies the associations between the various types of living arrangements of young adults (living with parents, living alone, cohabiting, marriage) and a large set of value orientations pertaining to religiosity, politics, civil morality, gender roles, and education values. Socio-economic characteristics and age are control variables. The selection processes (values codetermine choices in living arrangements) and affirmation (living arrangement codetermines values) are discussed, together with the need to collect panel data instead of proceeding with repeated surveys.
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Lesthaeghe, R., Moors, G. (1995). Living Arrangements, Socio-Economic Position, and Values Among Young Adults: A pattern description for Belgium, France, the Netherlands, and West-Germany, 1990. In: van den Brekel, H., Deven, F. (eds) Population and Family in the Low Countries 1994. European Studies of Population, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0269-8_1
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