CHAIRPERSON
Dr Abhijit Visaria, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore
ABSTRACT
The divorce level, measured by the crude divorce rate (CDR), has increased dramatically in both East and West over the past few decades but has recently appeared to fall or level off in some countries. We conducted a decomposition analysis on the changes in CDRs over the past two decades for five countries, namely, the UK, Australia, Taiwan, South Korea, and Singapore to identify the important elements. It seems that the impact of shrinkage of the married population is more significant that in reduction in divorce risk. Furthermore, we have computed the marriage age dependent lifetime risk of divorce in these five countries. The difference in divorce pattern between east and west countries is discussed.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Paul Yip is a professor at the department of Social Work and Social Administration of the University of Hong Kong and he is also a director for the centre for suicide research and prevention. He has been awarded the Stengel research award for his contribution in suicide research. He also received an outstanding researcher award and outstanding student supervisor of the University of Hong Kong. He had served as a member of Population policy task force and an associate member of the Central Policy Unit of the Hong Kong SAR Government. His interest is in population health and program evaluation.
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