Title: International migration, transfers of norms and home country fertility
First published: 2009
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.
Subjects: Emigration and immigration, Human Fertility
LC classification: HG3881.5.W57