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 …

Although cohabitation and childbearing within cohabitation has increased dramatically in Europe over the past decades …, the variation across Europe remains remarkable. Most studies on changing union formation have not explicitly addressed how … state policies may be facilitating cohabitation or, alternatively, stalling the increase of cohabitation by privileging …

births within cohabitation. Relatively few studies in Europe, however, investigate the educational gradient of childbearing … hazard models to examine the educational gradient of childbearing in cohabitation in 8 countries across Europe. In all … within cohabitation or how it changed over time. Using retrospective union and fertility histories, we employ competing risk …

Over the last two decades, Europe has witnessed the spreading of a new phenomenon: cohabitation. Whereas this modern … diffusion of cohabitation. Researchers so far have assumed that traditionally strong family ties between parents and their adult …: There is evidence that the educational degree of the mother influences to a large extent the transition to cohabitation of …

situation, in which most young adults are unable to choose cohabitation. Thus, not surprisingly, previous studies found evidence … that in Italy cohabitation was only a choice for people who were economically independent. Also of interest is that the … percentage of informal unions varies to a considerable extent across Italy, showing higher proportions of cohabitation in the …

Cohabitation has been spreading in the population during the last thirty years, and this is one of the most striking … place uniformly across Europe. The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the current debate around the compatibility of … cohabitation experiences with the Italian cultural context. Using an individual-level diffusion approach we obtain results that are …

Sweden than in Germany, in particular for cohabitation. …

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

attitudes associated to non-marital cohabitation by a selected sample of young Poles. Results indicate that although … cohabitation has begun to be interpreted as a testing period leading to marriage, attitudes towards it are still very ambiguous … cohabitation rate in Poland enable us to advance grounded hypotheses on its evolution in the near future and, more generally, to …