Integration policy: Cultural transmission with endogenous fertility

Sagit Bar-Gill () and Chaim Fershtman ()
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Sagit Bar-Gill: Tel Aviv University
Chaim Fershtman: Tel Aviv University

Journal of Population Economics, 2016, vol. 29, issue 1, No 5, 105-133

Abstract: Abstract We live in heterogeneous societies with many cultural and ethnic minorities. The cultural composition of our societies changes over time as a result of immigration, fertility choices, and cultural assimilation. Studying such population dynamics, we examine the effect of integration policies, which increase the cost of direct cultural transmission, on the size of the cultural minority. We show that integration policies, while often aimed at reducing the minority’s size, may have the opposite effect of increasing minority fertility and its growth rate.

Keywords: Minorities; Fertility; Cultural transmission; Integration policies. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J13 J15 J18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1007/s00148-014-0521-0

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