1. Cosmopolitan cities or the “Great White North”? A small-scale hierarchical cluster analysis of 4,689 Canadian census subdivisions • Leora Courtney-Wolfman, Austrian Academy of Sciences.

2. Way out of town – are long-distance relationships a response to local partner scarcity? • Andreas Filser, Institute for Employment Research (IAB); Richard Preetz, Socium Research Center On Inequality And Social Policy, University Of Bremen, Germany.

3. Female Labor Force Participation and Care of Children in Coastal New Jersey • Katerine Ramirez, Monmouth University; James Allan, Monmouth University; Geoffrey Fouad, Monmouth University.