“…Even when socio-demographic characteristics of the couple were taken into account, ideational factors contributed to explaining the propensity of having a child, confirming findings of Bernhardt and Goldscheider (2006) for Sweden, Liefbroer (2005) for the Netherlands and Moors (2008) for North-Rhine Westphalia. In the Cox model, women's Affective score was a strong predictor of first births whereas male respondents' values of children did not exert any significant influence on the first-birth rate.…”