Past work on the relationship between cohabitation and childbearing shows that cohabitation increases fertility … these decisions can bias estimates of cohabitation on childbearing. For example, cohabitors may be more likely to plan … births because they see cohabitation as an acceptable context for childbearing; alternatively, they may be more likely to …

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

proportion of unions begun as cohabitation. …

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 …

Unlike the countries of north-western Europe, marriage in Italy has maintained a crucial role in the process of family … empirical evidence that cohabitation is now spreading in Italy; and to propose an explanation of the delay of its diffusion …

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 parents …’ characteristics on young adults’ decisions for cohabitation. However, there is only limited empirical knowledge about the actual …

covering up to 60 countries in Europe, North America, Asia, and Oceania. This paper presents conceptual considerations and …