Fertility
Subtitle: the role of culture and family experience
By: Raquel Fernández, Alessandra Fogli.
Contributors: Fogli, Alessandra.; National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 11569; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 11569.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Family size -- Social aspects -- United States; Fertility, Human -- Social aspects -- United States
Description: "This paper attempts to disentangle the direct effects of experience from those of culture in determining fertility.  We use the GSS to examine the fertility of women born in the US but from different ethnic backgrounds.  We take lagged values of the total fertility rate in the woman's country of ancestry as the cultural proxy and use the woman's number of siblings to capture her direct family experience.  We find that both variables are significant determinants of fertility, even after controlling for several individual and family-level characteristics"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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