Fertility: The Role of Culture and Family Experience

Raquel Fernández and Alessandra Fogli ()

No 5221, CEPR Discussion Papers from C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers

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 woman’s country of ancestry as the cultural proxy and use the woman’s number of siblings 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.

Keywords: cultural transmission; family; fertility; immigrants (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J13 J16 Z10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2005-09
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