“…The timing of leaving home and the different pathways out of the parental home are known to be influenced by three sets of factors: individual characteristics (e.g., level of education and family background), parental characteristics (e.g., parental education and homeownership of parents), and contextual characteristics (e.g., wider social institutions, broad historical trends, and sociocultural regimes and cultures) (e.g., Aassve, Arpino, and Billari 2013;Blaauboer and Mulder 2010;Goldscheider and Goldscheider 1999;Iacovou 2001Iacovou , 2010. These findings are well established in the research literature and we describe them only briefly because our main focus lies on analyzing the differential effects across countries.…”