This study examines the influence of parents and peers on first union timing among the Turkish second generation in … countries with different integration policies and welfare regimes. Analyses show that both parents and peers are relevant …

partners in a couple. We use data from four waves of the Italian section of the EU-SILC (Statistics on Income and Living …

This paper attempts to isolate the causal link of income on health status and subjective well-being for the rural … Ideational Change Project (MDICP) and the Malawi Longitudinal Study of Families and Health (MLSFH). Malawi is a low-income … health. Instrumental variables and fixed effects strategies are used to try to address endogeneity of the income to health …

.26 children per woman in 2000. In this paper we investigate whether and how in that period economic resources and, in particular …, income and job stability were linked with couples’ decisions to enter parenthood. With this aim, we use data from ECHP and … arrangement experiencing the highest first birth rates. We also find that employed women with labour income have much lower first …

stability hypothesis, the search hypothesis and the income pooling hypothesis; and counter the women´s economic independence …

There is still much uncertainty about the impact of income inequality on health and mortality. Some studies have … is that there are many factors that may affect both income inequality and individual mortality but that cannot be … suggested that income inequality in the municipality of residence, as measured by the Gini coefficient, had an adverse effect on …

groups of children were less likely to live in poor or low-income families in the late 1990s than such children a decade …, especially groups in medium risk ranks--children in families with parents between ages 25 to 29, with parents who only had a high … increased odds of falling below low-income lines among children in working families facing multiple disadvantaged …

negative or neutral status-fertility relation. Those with high income/wealth or high occupation/social class switch from having … relatively many to fewer or the same number of children as others. Education, however, depresses fertility for as long as this …