Guido, de Blasio; Massimo, Omiccioli - In: Rivista italiana degli economisti (2013) 3, pp. 395-416
This paper makes an empirical analysis of the effect of a common origin within a coupleon fertility. We use the Bank of Italy's Survey of Household Income and Wealth (SHIW) to examine thefertility of a sample of Italian women and find that those with the same origin as their husbands tend tohave...