International migration, transfers of norms and home country fertility
By: Michel Beine, Frederic Docquier, Maurice Schiff.
Contributors: World Bank.
Series: Policy research working paper -- 4925; Policy research working papers (Online) -- 4925.
Publisher: World Bank
Published: 2009
Place of publication: [Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Emigration and immigration; Fertility, Human
Description: "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. "--World Bank web site.
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