Numerous studies have shown that educational attainment and labour force status have a strong impact on the timing of family formation for both men and women. The effects of educational level, enrolment in an educational setting and employment seem to be different for men and women. The aim of...

Multiple studies find that employment uncertainty has a negative association with the timing of first birth. However, there is significant debate about how to conceptualise and measure employment uncertainty-as contemporaneous objective measures, subjective perceptions, or early-career...

This paper compares two approaches to analyzing longitudinal discrete-time binary outcomes. Dynamic binary response models focus on state occupancy and typically specify low-order Markovian state dependence. Multi-spell duration models focus on transitions between states and typically allow for...