Religious Socialisation and Fertility: Transition to Third Birth in The Netherlands

Socialisation Religieuse et Fécondité: L’arrivée du Troisième Enfant aux Pays-Bas

Caroline Berghammer ()
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Caroline Berghammer: Vienna Institute of Demography, Austrian Academy of Sciences

European Journal of Population, 2009, vol. 25, issue 3, No 4, 297-324

Abstract: Abstract Although previous studies have demonstrated that religious people in Europe have larger families, the role played by religious socialisation in the context of contemporary fertility behaviour has not yet been analysed in detail. This contribution specifically looks at the interrelation between religious socialisation and current religiosity and their impact on the transition to the third child for Dutch women. It is based on data of the first wave of the Netherlands Kinship Panel Study (2002–2004) and uses event history analysis. The transitions to first, second and third birth are modelled jointly with a control for unobserved heterogeneity. The findings provide evidence for an impact of women’s current church attendance as well as religious socialisation measured by their fathers’ religious affiliation, when they were teenagers. A religious family background remains influential even when a woman has stopped attending church. The effects of religious indicators strengthen over cohorts. Moreover, the combined religious make-up of the respondent’s parents also significantly determines the progression to the third child.

Keywords: Religion; Fertility; Third child; Netherlands; Event history analysis; Religion; Fécondité; Troisième enfant; Pays-Bas; Analyse biographique (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1007/s10680-009-9185-y

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