The Effect of Couple Disagreement about Child-Timing Intentions
A Parity-Specific Approach
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4121450 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Maria Rita Testa (0000-0003-0621-6606, Senior Researcher, Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital, Vienna and Vienna University of Economics and Business.), Maria Testa (0000-0003-4549-4457, Vienna Institute of Demography), Laura Cavalli (0000-0002-7613-7439, University of Verona), Alessandro Rosina (0000-0002-0158-0583, Associate Professor of Demography and Director, Laboratorio di statistica applicata alle decisioni economico‐aziendali Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Milan) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 31-53 |
| Publication date | 2014-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Population and Development Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0098-7921 • E-ISSN: 1728-4457 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1728-4457.2014.00649.x |
| OpenAlex | W2014893189 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 43 |
| References cited | 51 |
Using couple data from a longitudinal study conducted in Italy, a country with persistently low fertility levels, we examined the effect of partners' discrepant child-timing intentions on reproductive behavior. We found that the effect of couple disagreement on subsequent fertility is parity-specific and does not depend on whether only the male or the female partner intends to have a(nother) child. The disagreement tends to produce an intermediate childbearing outcome at parities zero and one, while the outcome is shifted more toward agreement on not having a(nother) child at parity two. The empirical evidence suggests that gender equality in reproductive decisionmaking is not driven by partners' equal bargaining power or partners' equal access to economic resources. The findings indicate that the predictive power of child-timing intentions strongly improves if both partners' views are considered in fertility models, and thus support the adoption of couple analysis in fertility research
Bargaining power · Demographic economics · Developmental psychology · Economics · Fertility · Longitudinal data · Microeconomics · Outcome (game theory) · Parity (physics) · Physics · Population · Predictive power · Sociology · Assisted Reproductive Technology and Twin Pregnancy · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences · Demography · Family Dynamics and Relationships · Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 43 |
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| Citations per year | 3,91 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2026 (12) |
| Citation velocity | current |
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| Citation types | Neutral: 41 |