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 …

uses individual level survey data from the Caucasus Resource Research Center (CRRC) Georgia on fertility before and after … fertility …

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 …

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

Germany has the lowest birth rate among all OECD countries. To encourage fertility, the federal government has recently … fertility may be reversed through changes in public policy that allow women to combine employment and motherhood. …

benefits on fertility. While generally the reform increased child benefits, the exact amount of the increase varied … substantially by household income and sibship size. We use these heterogeneities to identify their causal effects on fertility in a … positive fertility effects for higher as opposed to lower income couples deciding on a second birth. …