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| Title: | | Fertility differences between married and cohabiting couples: a switching regression analysis  |
| Authors: | | Zhang, Junfu Song, Xue |
| Issue Date: | | 2007 |
| Series/Report no.: | | IZA Discussion Papers 3245 |
| Abstract: | | Little is known about why cohabiting couples have fewer children than married couples. We explore the factors that explain the difference in fertility between these two groups using a switching regression analysis, which enables us to quantify the contribution of different factors through a decomposition of the difference. We find that married couples have more children than cohabiting couples primarily because marriage provides stronger incentives for specialization in household production. Unobserved self-selection plays a less important role. |
| Subjects: | | Fertility marriage cohabitation switching regression self-selection household specialization |
| JEL: | | J12 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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