Couples’ fertility differentials by education: do stepchildren make a difference?
Trimarchi, A. & Toulemon, L. (2025). Rivista Italiana di Economia Demografia e Statistica, 91-102 10.71014/sieds.v79i1.301
A growing number of studies has explored both partners’ education as determinant of couples’ fertility, acknowledging the fact that the decision to have a child is couple based. Still, those studies have solely focused on children born to the couple, without considering stepchildren. As a result, in studying couples’ birth rates by educational pairing, previous studies did not account for …
