Do babies come faster if grandparents live closer? Intergenerational Geographical Proximity at the Transition to Parenthood

Cologne
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2014,

Pink, Sebastian

This study asks whether regional availability of (prospective) grandparents influences their children’s fertility decision. To answer this question, I exploit data from five waves of pairfam to estimate discrete-time hazard models (N = 916 females) for the transition to parenthood.