Balbo, Nicoletta; Barban, Nicola; Mills, Melinda - "Carlo F. Dondena" Centre for Research on Social … - 2013
This paper aims to investigate whether friends’ and peers’ behavior influence and individual’s entry into marriage and … parenthood during the transition to adulthood of young, U.S. adults. After first studying entry into marriage and parenthood as …-friend effects on entry into parenthood, whereas entry into marriage is only affected by peer effects. Estimates of a multiprocess …