fertility behavior of women 30-40 years old, born in the U.S., but whose parents were born elsewhere. We use past female labor … force participation and total fertility rates from the country of ancestry as our cultural proxies. These variables should … explanatory power for individual work and fertility outcomes, even after controlling for possible indirect effects of culture (e …

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 …