We examine the likelihood of becoming a parent in Italy taking into account the employment (in)stability of both partners in a couple. We use data from four waves of the Italian section of the EU-SILC (Statistics on Income and Living Condition), 2004-2007, accounting for its longitudinal nature....

Hoem and Mure?an (2011a) have recently shown that the most widely used macro-level indicator of fertility, the total fertility rate (TFR), can be reconciled with fertility estimates that derive from applications of event history analysis (EHA) to micro-data. The purpose of this paper is to...

At adult ages x, the force of mortality increases more or less exponentially with age, and the parameter associated with age, ?, can be used to gauge the rate of senescence (ageing) of a generation. The hypothesis has recently been advanced that the rate of senescence at the individual level may...