Rutigliano, RobertaEsping-Andersen, Gøsta, 1947-2022-10-172022-10-172018Rutigliano R, Esping-Andersen G. Partnership choice and childbearing in Norway and Spain. Eur J Population. 2018;34:367-86. DOI: 10.1007/s10680-017-9432-60168-6577http://hdl.handle.net/10230/54406Includes supplementary materials for the online appendix.Cohabitation has, in a number of countries, become a genuine alternative to marriage. Where this occurs, will we see a convergence in fertility behavior between the two partnership options? We address this question by comparing two societies, Norway and Spain, that contrast sharply not only in the evolution of cohabitation, but also in overall birth rates and public support for families. Using the Generations and Gender Survey for Norway (2007/2008) and the most recent Fertility, Family and Values Survey for Spain (2006), we estimate a three-equation multi-process model for selection into a union and fertility in order to take into account unobserved heterogeneity. For Norway, we find a significant association between selection into either partnership type and fertility, whereas for Spain, a newcomer to cohabitation, we find a significant association between fertility and selection into marriage.application/pdfengThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.info:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10680-017-9432-6FertilityCohabitationMarriageSimultaneous equation modelsSpainNorwayinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess