Abstract Using nationally representative data from the UK Millennium Cohort Study (n = 7396), we investigate whether mother’s age at first birth is associated with level of support she receives her parents around time birth. We apply latent class analysis to construct a summary measure five dimensions parental (contact mother, contact father, childcare, monetary transfers and financial for buyi...

background: factors that influence men’s childbearing intentions have beenrelatively unexplored in the literature.objective: this study aimed to determine the influencing factors about the firstchildbearing timing decisions of men.materials and methods: in this cross-sectional study, 300 men who were referredto private and governmental healthcare centers in shahrood, iran were randomlyrecruited...

This article investigates the time to first birth, treating coresidence with husband's parents and labor supply as endogenous and using representative data on Taiwanese married women born during 1933-1968. We use a full-information maximum likelihood estimator for a duration model with endogenous binary variables. Results controlling for endogeneity suggest that both coresidence and working are...

A rapid rise in women’s education levels, an increase in the age at marriage and an increase in the age at which they have their Þrst child are key features of demographic transition in any country. Education is considered to be an essential component in this process because increases in educational attainment are likely to signiÞcantly affect both age at marriage and the duration between marri...

☆ In part, this paper uses confidentialised unit record was initiated and is funded by the Australian Departm Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social R should not be attributed to either FaHCSIA or the MIAE Stern, Justin Wolfers, seminar participants at Columb recent births data than a previous version, though thi ⁎ Corresponding author. E-mail addresses: J.Gans@unimelb.edu.au (J.S. ...