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Fertility intentions and residential relocations

27 June 2018

This article was originally published in November 2017.

LCC Fellow Sergi Vidal, along with colleagues Johannes Huinink and Michael Feldhaus, has published a new paper in Demography titled, ‘Fertility Intentions and Residential Relocations‘. 

Their research asks whether intention to conceive is associated with moving home, and considers the distance of these relocations. Using German Family Panel data from two birth cohorts, the authors found that couples relocated at higher rates if they were planning to have a child. Additionally, they found that individuals at an average age for forming families, relocated at lower rates when intending to have their first child. Whereas individuals who were planning subsequent children, were seen to relocate at a higher rate.

The authors suggest that their results show that individuals are adjusting their homes in anticipation of growing family numbers, and that these examples of residential mobility are important in analysis of family life course.

You can find the paper, here.