In studies of the fertility of migrants in which the data are confined to the migrants only, estimation bias will normally appear in comparisons of childbearing before and after migration. The same issue arises in studies of union formation before and after first birth, marriage formation before...

Until the late 1980s there was little non-marital cohabitation in Romania. After the fall of state socialism, the overall fraction in consensual unions grew steadily, and by 2005 it had reached some 10%. This development had consequences for the patterns of childbearing. The present paper...

???? (Jan M.). - Improved indirect standardisation and patterns of divorce risks in Sweden (1971-1989). Sweden is commonly regarded as a country of high and increasing divorce risks. In this report, we analyze trends and patterns of divorce risks in Sweden in the 1970s and 1980s, and display...

Recent trends in official statistics show strong increases in non-marital cohabitation in younger Italian generations. Moreover, other sources suggest that consensual unions have lasted longer in recent years before they were converted into marriages. In the present paper we consider entry into...

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