The influence of rapid rural-urban migration on Korean national fertility levels

Bun Song Lee, and Stephen C. Farber

Journal of Development Economics, 1985, vol. 17, issue 1, 47-71

Abstract: We apply an autoregressive model to personal migration and pregnancy histories recorded in the 1974 Korean World Fertility Survey to assess the adaptation effect of rural-urban migration on migrant fertility and national fertility levels. The results support the hypothesis that there is a substantial adaptation effect which increases as the size of the destination city increases. The effect of rural-urban migration on national fertility levels is significant. It was estimated that the 945,400 rural-urban women migrants who moved between 1965 and 1970 would avoid, on average, 71,300 births annually during their 24 years of urban residence.

Date: 1985
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DOI: 10.1016/0304-3878(85)90020-3

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