A Home to Plan the First Child? Fertility Intentions and Housing Conditions in Italy
A Home to Plan the First Child? Fertility Intentions and Housing Conditions in Italy
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计划第一个孩子的家？
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2013
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E. Mussino
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Daniele Vignoli;Francesca Rinesi;E. Mussino
在意大利，关于低生育率和人们社会经济地位之间联系的现有文献对住房的潜在作用一直保持沉默，这令人惊讶。本研究旨在填补这一空白。在住房保障方面较好的意大利人是否更有可能计划在短期内生第一个孩子？我们的研究结果表明，夫妇的生育意愿和他们对住房状况感到安全的程度之间存在明显的正梯度。在我们控制了这对夫妇的人口和社会经济特征，调整了未观察到的特征的估计值，并考虑到住房和生育率之间的内在联系之后，正梯度仍然很大。这意味着，在意大利，在研究生育率差异时不应忽视住房方面。版权所有© 2012约翰威利父子有限公司.
In Italy, the existing literature on the link between low fertility and people's socio-economic status has been surprisingly silent about the potential role of housing. This study aimed at filling this gap. Are Italians who are better off in terms of housing security more likely to plan to have a first child in the short run? Our results suggest that there is a clear positive gradient between the fertility intentions of couples and the degree to which they feel secure about their housing situation. The positive gradient remained substantial after we controlled for the demographic and socio-economic characteristics of the couple and after we adjusted the estimates for the presence of unobserved characteristics and we took into account the endogeneity between housing and fertility. This implies that, in Italy, the housing dimension should not be disregarded when studying fertility differentials. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.