Leaving the parental home in Sweden and Italy • Eva Bernhardt, Stockholm University ; Antonella Pinnelli, Università di Roma "La Sapienza" ; Francesca Fiori, Università di Roma "La Sapienza"

Premarital nest-leaving and first marriage in Japan • Setsuya Fukuda, Meiji University, Japan

Parental help and type of first union in Italy • Alessandro Rosina, Università Cattolica, Milan

First-time home-ownership in the Netherlands • Annika Smits, University of Amsterdam and Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research ; Clara H. Mulder, University of Amsterdam