%0 Report
        %A Zhang, Junfu
%A Song, Xue
        %T Fertility Differences between Married and Cohabiting Couples: A Switching Regression Analysis
        %D 2007
        %8 2007 Dec
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 3245
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp3245
        %X Little is known about why cohabiting couples have fewer children than married couples. We explore the factors that explain the difference in fertility between these two groups using a switching regression analysis, which enables us to quantify the contribution of different factors through a decomposition of the difference. We find that married couples have more children than cohabiting couples primarily because marriage provides stronger incentives for specialization in household production. Unobserved self-selection plays a less important role.
        %K fertility
%K marriage
%K cohabitation
%K switching regression
%K self-selection
%K household specialization