International migration, transfers of norms and home country fertility

Michel Beine, Frédéric Docquier and Maurice Schiff

No 4925, Policy Research Working Paper Series from The World Bank

Abstract: This paper examines the relationship between international migration and source country fertility. The impact of international migration on source country fertility may have a number of causes, including a transfer of destination countries'fertility norms and an incentive to acquire more education. It provides provide a rigorous test of the diffusion on of fertility norms using original and detailed data on migration. The results provide evidence of a significant transfer of fertility norms from migrants to their country of origin: a one percent decrease in the fertility norm to which migrants are exposed reduces home country fertility by about 0.3 percent for origin countries.

Keywords: Population Policies; Gender and Social Development; Reproductive Health; Human Migrations&Resettlements; Anthropology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009-05-01
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