A Home to Plan the First Child? Fertility Intentions and Housing Conditions in Italy

Population, Space and Place

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 60-71

  Vignoli, Daniele ^a   Rinesi, Francesca ^b   Mussino, Eleonora ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b ITALIAN NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STATISTICS   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bivariate ordered probit model; Fertility intentions; Housing conditions; Italy

Indexed keywords

FAMILY PLANNING; FERTILITY; HOUSING CONDITIONS; MODELING; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS;

ITALY;

EID: 84870066335     PISSN: 15448444     EISSN: 15448452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/psp.1716     Document Type: Article

References (50)

1. Baldini M. 2010. La casa degli italiani. Il Mulino: Bologna.
2. Barbagli M, Castiglioni M, Dalla Zuanna G. 2004. Fare famiglia in Italia. Un secolo di cambiamenti. Il Mulino: Bologna.
3. Bernardi F, Poggio T. 2004. Home ownership and social inequality in Italy. In Home Ownership and Social Inequality in Comparative Perspective, Kurz K, Blossfeld HP (eds). Stanford University Press: Stanford.
4. Billari F, Dalla Zuanna G. 2008. La rivoluzione nella culla: il declino che non c'è. UBE editore: Milano.
5. Bound J, Jaeger DA, Baker RM. 1995. Problems with instrumental variables estimation when the correlation between the instruments and the endogenous explanatory variable is weak. Journal of the American Statistical Association 90(430): 443-450.
6. Castiglioni M, Dalla Zuanna G. 1994. Innovation and tradition: reproductive and marital behaviour in Italy in the 1970s and 1980s. European Journal of Population 10(2): 107-142.
7. Castles FG, Ferrera M. 1996. Home ownership and the welfare state: is Southern Europe different? In South European Society and Politics. In Home Ownership and Social Inequality in Comparative Perspective, Kurz K, Blossfeld HP (eds). Stanford University Press: Stanford; 163-184.
8. Christelis D, Jappelli T, Padula P. 2005. Wealth and portfolio composition. In Home-Ownership, Social Insurance, and the Welfare State, Conley D, Gifford B (eds). Sociological Forum 21(1): 55-82.
9. Courgeau D, Leliévre E. 1992. Interrelations between first home-ownership, constitution of the family, and professional occupation in France. In Demographic Applications of Event History Analysis, Trussell J, Hankinson R, Tilton J (eds). Clarendon Press: Oxford.
10. D'Alessio G, Gambacorta R. 2007. L'accesso all'abitazione di residenza in Italia. Occasional Papers N.9 Banca d'Italia.
11. Dalla Zuanna G. 2001. The banquet of Aeolus: a familistic interpretation of Italy's lowest low fertility. Demographic Research 4(5): 133-162.
12. Deurloo MC, Clark WAV, Dieleman FM. 1994. The move to housing ownership in temporal and regional contexts. Environment and Planning 26: 1659-1670.
13. Dewilde C, Raeymaeckers P. 2008. Trade-off between home ownership and pensions: individual and institutional determinants of old age poverty. Aging and Society 28: 805-830.
14. Enström Öst C. 2012. Housing and children: simultaneous decisions?-a cohort study of young adults' housing and family formation decision. Journal of Population Economics 25: 349-366.
15. Esping-Andersen G (ed). 2007. Family Formation and Family Dilemmas in Contemporary Europe. Fundacion BBVA: Bilbao.
16. Eurostat. 2010. Available at http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/statistics_explained/index.php/Housing_statistics [accessed 1 February 2011].
17. Feijten P, Mulder CH. 2002. The timing of household events and housing events in the Netherlands: a longitudinal perspective. Housing Studies 17(5): 773-792.
18. Flores M, Kalwij A. 2011. The Associations between Early Life Circumstances and Later Life Health and Employment in the Netherlands and Spain. Netspar Discussion Paper 04/2011-040.
19. Gorton M, Sauer J, Supatpongkul P. 2009. Investigating Thai Shopping Behaviour: Wet-Markets, Supermarkets and Food Quality. Paper presented at The 83rd Annual Conference of the Agricultural Economics Society, Dublin, 30 March to 1 April 2009.
20. Guiso L, Jappelli T. 2002. Private transfers, borrowing constraints and the timing of home ownership. Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking 34: 315-339.
21. Hakim C. 2003. A new approach to explaining fertility patterns: preference theory. Population and Development Review 29(3): 349-374.
22. Kohler HP, Billari FC, Ortega JA. 2002. The emergence of lowest-low fertility in Europe during the 1990s. Population and Development Review 28(4): 641-680.
23. Krishnan V, Krotki KJ. 1993. Life cycle effects on home-ownership in Canada. Housing Studies 8(2): 120-127.
24. Kurz K, Blossfeld HP. 2004. Introduction: social stratification, welfare regime, and access to home ownership. In Home Ownership and Social Inequality in Comparative Perspective, Kurz K, Blossfeld HP (eds). Stanford University Press: Stanford.
25. Livi Bacci M. 2008. Avanti giovani alla riscossa. Come uscire dalla crisi giovanile in Italia. Il Mulino: Bologna.
26. Matysiak A, Vignoli D. 2010. Employment around first birth in two adverse institutional settings: evidence from Italy and Poland. In Gender Relations in Europe - Change or Continuity, Schmitt C, Trappe H (eds). Special Issue of the Journal of Family Research, 3/2010: 331-346.
27. Mencarini L. 2009. Giovani italiani e scelte abitative. Meridiana. Rivista di storia e scienze sociali. Abitare 62: 135-144.
28. Mencarini L, Tanturri ML. 2006. Una casa per diventare grandi. I giovani italiani, l'autonomia abitativa e il ruolo della famiglia d'origine. Polis 3: 405-430.
29. Mills M, Blossfeld H-P. 2005. Globalization, uncertainty and the early life course: a theoretical framework. In Globalization, Uncertainty and Youth in Society, Blossfeld H-P, Klizing E, Mills M, Kurz K (eds). Routledge: London and New York.
30. Mulder CH. 2006a. Home-ownership and family formation. Journal of Housing and the Built Environment 21: 281-298.
31. Mulder CH. 2006b. Population and housing: a two-sided relationship. Demographic Research 15(13): 401-412.
32. Mulder CH. 2007. The family context and residential choice: a challenge for new research. Population, Space and Place 13: 265-278.
33. Mulder CH, Billari FC. 2010. Home-ownership regimes and low fertility. Housing Studies 25(4): 527-541.
34. Mulder CH, Hooimeijer P. 1999. Residential relocations in the life course. In Population Issues. An Interdisciplinary Focus, van Wissen LJG, Dykstra PA (eds). Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers: New York.
35. Mulder CH, Smits J. 1999. First-time home-ownership of couples: the effect of inter-generational transmission. European Sociological Review 15(3): 323-337.
36. Mulder CH, Wagner M. 1998. First-time home-ownership in the family life course: a West German-Dutch comparison. Urban Studies 35(4): 687-713.
37. Mulder CH, Wagner M. 2001. The connections between family formation and first-time home ownership in the context of West Germany and the Netherlands. European Journal of Population 17: 137-164.
38. Murphy MJ, Sullivan O. 1985. Housing tenure and family formation in contemporary Britain. European Sociological Review 1(3): 230-243.
39. Ongaro F. 2003. Prima della scelta: la lunga transizione. Paper presented at the Conference on Low Fertility between Economic Constraints and Value Changes, Accademia dei Lincei, Rome.
40. Pinnelli A. 1995. Women's condition, low fertility, and emerging union patterns in Europe. In Gender and Family Change in Industrialized Countries, Mason KO, Jensen AM (eds). Clarendon Press: Oxford.
41. Poggio T. 2008. The intergenerational transmission of home ownership and the reproduction of the familialistic welfare regime. In Families, Ageing and Social Policy. Intergenerational Solidarity in European Welfare Regime, Saraceno C (ed). Edward Elgar: Cheltenham (UK) and Northampton (MA, USA).
42. Raymo JM, Mencarini L, Iwasawa M, Moriizumi R. 2010. Intergenerational proximity and the fertility intentions of married women: a Japan-Italy comparison. Asian Population Studies 6(2): 193-214.
43. Reher DS. 1998. Family ties in Western Europe: persistent contrasts. Population and Development Review 24(2): 203-234.
44. Ricci R. 1997. Povertà abitativa in Italia, 1989-1993. Commissione sulla povertà e l'emarginazione sociale in Italia, Presidenza del Consiglio dei ministri Dipartimento per l'informazione e l'editoria: Roma.
45. Sajaia Z. 2008. Maximum likelihood estimation of a bivariate ordered probit model: implementation and Monte Carlo simulations. The Stata Journal ii: 1-18.
46. Saunders P. 1990. A Nation of Home Owners. Unwin Hyman: London.
47. Ström S. 2010. Housing and first births in Sweden, 1972-2005. Housing Studies 25(4): 509-526.
48. Tanturri ML, Vignoli D. 2010. Do older poor Europeans have less access to home ownership? Evidence from the share survey. Rivista Italiana di Economia, Demografia e Statistica LXIII(3-4): 211-218.
49. Vignoli D, Régnier-Loilier A. 2009. Chi non desidera due figli? Uno studio comparativo tra Francia e Italia. Rivista di Studi Familiari 2009(1): 19-39.
50. Vignoli D, Drefahl S, De Santis G. 2012. Whose job instability affects the likelihood of becoming a parent in Italy? A tale of two partners. Demographic Research 26: 41-62.