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Shared Origins and Fertility: An Empirical Study for Italy

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  • Guido de Blasio
  • Massimo Omiccioli

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This paper makes an empirical analysis of the effect of a common origin within a coupleon fertility. We use the Bank of Italy's Survey of Household Income and Wealth (SHIW) to examine thefertility of a sample of Italian women and find that those with the same origin as their husbands tend tohave more children, even after controlling for several individual, family-level, and area-of-residence characteristics.We also find that the impact of homogamy on fertility is stronger for less educated women andfor those residing in backward areas.

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  • Guido de Blasio & Massimo Omiccioli, 2013. "Shared Origins and Fertility: An Empirical Study for Italy," Rivista italiana degli economisti, Società editrice il Mulino, issue 3, pages 395-416.
    • Handle: RePEc:mul:jqat1f:doi:10.1427/74923:y:2013:i:3:p:395-416
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    1. Giuseppe Albanese & Guido Blasio & Paolo Sestito, 2016. "My parents taught Me. Evidence on the family transmission of values," Journal of Population Economics, Springer;European Society for Population Economics, vol. 29(2), pages 571-592, April.

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