Childbearing within cohabitation has gained considerable ground in recent decades, but existing explanations for this … cohabitation being related to a “pattern of disadvantage” as they are often concentrated among individuals faced with blocked …

This paper reviews recent research on family dynamics among immigrants and their descendants in Europe. While there is … a large body of literature on various aspects of immigrant lives in Europe, research on family dynamics has emerged only … fertility behaviour have significantly advanced our understanding of the factors shaping family patterns among immigrants and …

The increase in births within cohabitation in the United States and across Europe suggests that cohabitation and … first birth. Using harmonized union and fertility histories from surveys in 15 countries, this study examines second … Eastern Europe, even when controlling for union duration, union dissolution, age at first birth, and education. Pooled models …

births within cohabitation. Relatively few studies in Europe, however, investigate the educational gradient of childbearing … within cohabitation or how it changed over time. Using retrospective union and fertility histories, we employ competing risk … hazard models to examine the educational gradient of childbearing in cohabitation in 8 countries across Europe. In all …

among the decisions on marriage, fertility and divorce. …

a combination of increased longevity with a declining age gap between husbands and wives. Cohabitation has also become … increasingly important, emerging as a widely used step on the path to marriage. Out-of-wedlock fertility has also risen, consistent … pill and women’s control over their own fertility; sharp changes in wage structure, including a rise in inequality and …

We present a model of household decisions regarding sex, fertility, marriage, and consumption. Households choose … utility subject to a budget and a fertility constraint. An increase in contraceptive efficacy generally leads to increased … sexual activity but has ambiguous effects on fertility. Also, increases in contraceptive efficacy lead to lower marriage …

a combination of increased longevity with a declining age gap between husbands and wives. Cohabitation has also become … increasingly important, emerging as a widely used step on the path to marriage. Out-of-wedlock fertility has also risen, consistent … pill and women’s control over their own fertility; sharp changes in wage structure, including a rise in inequality and …

retrospective data from the Family Fertility Surveys collected in the 1990s. Most of our predictions are confirmed by a multi …