Fertility: The Role of Culture and Family Experience Export

@article{citeulike:4518509, 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.}, author = {Fernandez, Raquel and Fogli, Alessandra}, citeulike-article-id = {4518509}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://ssrn.com/abstract=822828}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Delivery.cfm/.pdf?abstractid=822828&mirid=1}, day = {07}, journal = {Social Science Research Network Working Paper Series}, month = {October}, posted-at = {2009-05-14 16:43:57}, priority = {2}, publisher = {SSRN}, title = {Fertility: The Role of Culture and Family Experience}, url = {http://ssrn.com/abstract=822828}, year = {2005} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:4518509 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4518509 N2 - 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. JF - Social Science Research Network Working Paper Series TI - Fertility: The Role of Culture and Family Experience PB - SSRN AU - Fernandez, Raquel AU - Fogli, Alessandra PY - 2005/October/07/ UR - http://ssrn.com/abstract=822828 ER -