Arbeitspapier
Do immigrants follow their home country's fertility norms?
This paper focuses on the role of home country's birth rates in shaping immigrants' fertility. We use the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) to study completed fertility of first generation immigrants who arrived from different countries and at different times. We find that women from countries where the aggregate birth rate is high tend to have significantly more children than women from countries with low birth rates. This relationship is attenuated by selection operating towards destination country. In addition, the fertility rates of source countries explain a large proportion of fertility differentials between immigrants and German natives. The results suggest that home country's culture affects immigrants' long-run outcomes and therefore favor the socialization hypothesis.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: IWQW Discussion Papers ; No. 04/2013
Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
Cultural Economics; Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology: General
Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification
fertility
socialization
culture
Germany
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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12.07.2024, 13:20 MESZ
Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Cygan-Rehm, Kamila
- Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Institut für Wirtschaftspolitik und Quantitative Wirtschaftsforschung (IWQW)
Entstanden
- 2013
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