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Title: Fertility: The Role of Culture and Family Experience

Author(s): Raquel Fernández and Alessandra Fogli

Publication Date: September 2005

Keyword(s): cultural transmission, family, fertility and immigrants

Programme Area(s): Public Economics

Abstract: 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 woman?s country of ancestry as the cultural proxy and use the woman?s number of siblings 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.

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Fernández, R and Fogli, A. 2005. 'Fertility: The Role of Culture and Family Experience'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=5221