de Blasio, Guido; Omiccioli, Massimo - 2013
This paper makes an empirical analysis of the effect of a common origin within a couple on fertility. We use the Bank … of Italy’s Survey of Household Income and Wealth (SHIW) to examine the fertility of a sample of Italian women and find …, family-level, and area-of-residence characteristics. We also find that the impact of homogamy on fertility is stronger for …