This paper compares the non-marital birth pattern in France and West Germany. Since the beginning of the eighties …, France witnessed a steady increase in non-marital birth rates, while in West Germany non-marital birth rates have remained at … Rhine which hamper or foster childbearing in cohabiting unions. Using data from the French and German Family and Fertility …

Sweden than in Germany, in particular for cohabitation. …We study the link between institutional arrangements and fertility, focusing on how institutions affect the nexus … between partnership formation and fertility. We apply simultaneous hazard models to family and fertility survey data for …

Childbearing within cohabitation has gained considerable ground in recent decades, but existing explanations for this … cohabitation being related to a “pattern of disadvantage” as they are often concentrated among individuals faced with blocked …

We present a model of household decisions regarding sex, fertility, marriage, and consumption. Households choose … utility subject to a budget and a fertility constraint. An increase in contraceptive efficacy generally leads to increased … sexual activity but has ambiguous effects on fertility. Also, increases in contraceptive efficacy lead to lower marriage …

retrospective data from the Family Fertility Surveys collected in the 1990s. Most of our predictions are confirmed by a multi …

explain the difference in fertility between these two groups using a switching regression analysis, which enables us to …

a combination of increased longevity with a declining age gap between husbands and wives. Cohabitation has also become … increasingly important, emerging as a widely used step on the path to marriage. Out-of-wedlock fertility has also risen, consistent … pill and women’s control over their own fertility; sharp changes in wage structure, including a rise in inequality and …

among the decisions on marriage, fertility and divorce. …

fertility behaviour have significantly advanced our understanding of the factors shaping family patterns among immigrants and …