%0 Journal Article
%T Does the Month of Birth Influence the Timing of Life Course Decisions? Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Italy
%A Laura Cavalli
%J Open Journal of Social Sciences
%P 101-118
%@ 2327-5960
%D 2014
%I Scientific Research Publishing
%R 10.4236/jss.2014.21011
%X Social scientists have observed for a long
time a negative relationship between the time spent on education and the timing of family
formation. Using data from the I.D.E.A. survey (2003), a birth-month experiment
on a sample of 3000 young Italian adults is employed in order to explore
whether a different month of birth leads to regular differences in life course
decisions of young Italians. The results suggest that the ˇ°socialˇ± age, as
determined by the school cohort, rather than the biological age, is an
important determinant of the timing of demographic events during the transition
to adulthood.
%K Education
%K Marriage
%K First Birth
%K Natural Experiment
%K Kaplan-Meier Estimate
%K Cox Hazard Model
%K Logit Regression Model
%U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=41746