"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...

This paper attempts to disentangle the direct effects of experience from those of culturein determining fertility. We use the GSS to examine the fertility of women born in the USbut from different ethnic backgrounds. We take lagged values of the total fertility rate in the woman s country of...

This handbook chapter focuses on important interactions between the family and culture. We discuss the wide range of global variation in family institutions, variation which is in part sustained by cultural differences, and important recent changes in family structures. The chapter discusses why...