The increase in births within cohabitation in the United States and across Europe suggests that cohabitation and …. Pooled models including an indicator for the diffusion of cohabitation show that when first births within cohabitation are … cohabitation increase, differences in second conception risks for cohabiting and married women narrow. But as the percent increases …

Although cohabitation and childbearing within cohabitation has increased dramatically in Europe over the past decades … state policies may be facilitating cohabitation or, alternatively, stalling the increase of cohabitation by privileging … in response to increasing cohabitation. As a first step to understanding this reciprocal relationship, we provide here an …

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 …

cohabitation and as single mothers, primarily due to a lower probability of legitimating a nonmarital conception. Based on these …