Several studies suggest that in Italy in the last decades the negative effect of education on fertility has disappeared … and fertility should be analyzed taking selection bias under control. With this purpose, we developed multiprocess hazard … between education and fertility emerges for the second and higher birth order. The preservation of the traditionalʺ link …

The aim of this paper is to explain the economic causes and consequences of the sharp decline in Italy’s fertility rate … consequence of the decline in fertility in Italy has been a dramatic increase in the proportion of elderly dependent members of … of a sharp fertility decline, two options are viable: a market option, namely an increase in immigration, as in Italy, or …