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. Consequently, in the years 2004-2006, entries to cohabitation constituted about one third of all first union entries … cohabitation has been also been recently observed among groups with higher levels of educational attainment. Although the estimates … of cohabitation incidence are far below those observed in Northern and Western Europe, our study suggests that Poland is …

non-marital cohabitation is particularly interesting. In this article we concentrate on Italy, a country that is … characterized by a low pace in the diffusion of cohabitation. Earlier studies found statistical evidence of the impact of parentsâ …€™ characteristics on young adults’ decisions for cohabitation. However, there is only limited empirical knowledge about the actual …

cohabitation in the United States. We find increases in both the prevalence and duration of unmarried cohabitation. Cohabitation … results point to the steady growth of cohabitation and to the evolving role of cohabitation in U.S. family life. …

intensity models for the transition to (i) cohabitation as first relationship and (ii) direct marriage of women in Italy …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 …

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 …

consistent with the crucial role that family ties play in the choice of cohabitation in place of (or before) marriage. …Cohabitation has been spreading in the population during the last thirty years, and this is one of the most striking … cohabitation experiences with the Italian cultural context. Using an individual-level diffusion approach we obtain results that are …