Between here and there: Immigrant fertility patterns in Germany

Kamila Cygan-Rehm

No 109, Working Papers from Bavarian Graduate Program in Economics (BGPE)

Abstract: This paper focuses on the role of the home country’s birth rates in shaping immigrant fertility. We use the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) to study completed fertility of first generation immigrants who arrived from different countries and at different time. We apply generalized Poisson regression to account for the underdispersion of the dependent variable. The results favor the socialization hypothesis holding that immigrants follow childbearing norms dominant in their home countries. We find that women from countries where the average birth rate is high tend to have significantly more children themselves. In addition, this relationship is the stronger, the later in life migration occurred.

Keywords: migration; fertility; socialization; underdispersion (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C25 J13 J15 Z10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 41 pages
Date: 2011-10
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