This paper focuses on the role of the home country's birth rates in shaping immigrant fertility. We use the German … Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) to study completed fertility of first generation immigrants who arrived from different countries … ; fertility ; socialization ; underdispersion …

Religion Predicting Fertility Behaviour of Young Women in Contemporary GermanyReligion in contemporary Germany is … marked by institutionalized outreach as well as increased pluralisation. Religion can thus play a decisive role in fertility … values transmit into abortion laws. This fertility behaviour determines the time when young women have their first live birth …

Using an epidemiological approach, we study the cultural influence on fertility outcomes of first- and second … fertility rates from the year of migration, survey measures of fertility norms and cohort fertility rates from the year of birth … identification. We find a statistically significant, sizeable and robust impact of country-of-origin fertility rates on fertility …

education track attendance from the first to the second generation of immigrants. Second, we find that reduced fertility is …

This paper examines how marital and fertility patterns have changed along racial and educational lines for men and … marital patterns by education for men. -- marriage ; divorce ; fertility ; education …"This paper examines how marital and fertility patterns have changed along racial and educational lines for men and …

its total fertility rate. At the household level, it has also been well documented that children's education is negatively … policymakers and researchers evaluate the total benefit of family planning policies, both policies to lower fertility and policies …

The negative correlation between women's education and fertility is strongly observed across regions and time; however …, its interpretation is unclear. Women's education level could affect fertility through its impact on women's health and …