Marital and Reproductive Behavior in Italy After 1995: Bridging the Gap with Western Europe?

Maria Castiglioni () and Gianpiero Dalla Zuanna
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Maria Castiglioni: University of Padova
Gianpiero Dalla Zuanna: University of Padova

European Journal of Population, 2009, vol. 25, issue 1, No 1, 26 pages

Abstract: Abstract Despite a delay of 20–25 years, when it comes to cohabitation, Italy has now begun to resemble other Western countries. In addition, the increase in legal separations has accelerated since 1995, although their number still remains far from that observed in countries such as the USA, the UK, and France. Finally, Italy’s fertility decline has come to a halt: the cohort of women born in the early 1970s will likely have the same TFR as those born in the mid-1960s (around 1.55). Moreover, in the Centre–North areas, period TFR rose from 1.1 in 1995 to 1.35 children per woman 10 years later. The territorial diffusion of cohabitation, legal separation, out-of-wedlock births, and fertility recovery overlaps closely with that of the decline in births during the first half of the twentieth century. A similar geographical pattern has been observed for the diffusion of school enrolment, industrialization, secularization, and (during the last 20 years) foreign immigration.

Keywords: Italy; Marriage; Cohabitation; Living arrangements; Legal marital separations; Fertility changes; Territorial pattern; Italie; mariage; cohabitation; structure de ménage; séparations légales; changements de fécondité; variations géographiques (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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