Fertility and Crime: Evidence from Spatial Analysis of Taiwan

Jr-Tsung Huang (), Tsun-Feng Chiang () and Jiun-Nan Pan ()

Journal of Family and Economic Issues, 2015, vol. 36, issue 3, 319-327

Abstract: Current literature indicates the possible effects of crime on family-related demographic events, including fertility. However, there is no empirical study that confirms this effect. The research purpose of this study is to fill this gap. Using county-level panel data during 2000–2010 from Taiwan, the estimated results of the fixed-effect spatial error models discovered that crime did have a significantly negative effect on fertility, although the magnitude was modest. Furthermore, fertility has spatial dependence: that is, some unobservable factors that promote fertility in a county will likely have positive impacts on the fertility of neighboring counties. From a general viewpoint, the estimated results of other control variables showed that economic factors were still the primary determinants of fertility. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media New York 2015

Keywords: Crime rate; General fertility rate; Fixed-effect spatial error model; Taiwan (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (3)

Downloads: (external link)
http://hdl.handle.net/10.1007/s10834-015-9440-9 (text/html)
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:kap:jfamec:v:36:y:2015:i:3:p:319-327

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.springer. ... es/journal/10834/PS2

DOI: 10.1007/s10834-015-9440-9

Access Statistics for this article

Journal of Family and Economic Issues is currently edited by Joyce Serido

More articles in Journal of Family and Economic Issues from Springer
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().