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| Title: | "Fertility: The Role of Culture and Family Experience," |
| Authors: | Fernandez, Raquel
Fogli, Alessandra |
| Keywords: | fertility
cultural transmission
immigrants
family |
| Issue Date: | Jul-2005 |
| Series/Report no.: | EC-05-14 |
| Abstract: | This paper attempts to disentangle the direct effects of experience from
those of culture in determining fertility. We use the GSS to examine the
fertility of women born in the US but from different ethnic backgrounds.
We take lagged values of the total fertility rate in the woman’s
country of ancestry as the cultural proxy and use the woman’s
number of siblings to capture her direct family experience. We find that
both variables are significant determinants of fertility, even after
controlling for several individual and family-level characteristics. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2451/26107 |
| Appears in Collections: | Economics Working Papers
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