Intergenerational family ties and the diffusion of cohabitation in Italy

Paola Di Giulio and Alessandro Rosina
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Paola Di Giulio: Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
Alessandro Rosina: Catholic University Milan

Demographic Research, 2007, vol. 16, issue 14, pages 441-468

Abstract: Cohabitation has been spreading in the population during the last thirty years, and this is one of the most striking aspects of wider social changes that have taken place throughout the industrialized world. However, this change did not take 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 consistent with the crucial role that family ties play in the choice of cohabitation in place of (or before) marriage.

Keywords: cohabitation; diffusion; family ties; first union; Italy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J1 Z0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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