This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women … generations. It focuses particularly on labor supply but, for the second generation, also examines fertility and education. We … to distinguish the effect of culture from that of social capital. These results support a growing literature that …

Using the 1970, 1980 and 1990 Censuses, we investigate the impact of labor and marriage market conditions on the … incidence of marriage of young women (age 16-24). We employ a two-stage methodology. First, across individuals, marriage is … effects are regressed on MSA-level labor and marriage market conditions and welfare benefits using cross-section and fixed …

in observing wage offers; selection into marriage; income taxes and the earned income tax credit; measurement error in …

Using 1995-2011 Current Population Survey and 1970-2000 Census data, we find that the fertility, education and labor … by the immigrant generation's levels of these variables, with the effect of the fertility and labor supply of women from … evidence that suggests our findings for fertility and labor supply are due to at least in part to intergenerational …

Using data from the 1970 and 1980 Censuses, we examined the fertility of immigrant women from the Middle East, Asia …, Latin America and the Caribbean where fertility rates averaged in excess of 5.5 children per women during the period of … immigration to the U.S. Perhaps the most interesting finding of this study is that immigrants from these on average high fertility …

marriage gap is eliminated in the secondgeneration. Immigrants' higher fertility does not assimilate toward the native level … Mexican immigrants. On arrival in the UnitedStates, immigrant women have a higher incidence of marriage (spouse present …), higher fertility, andmuch lower labor supply than comparable white natives; wage differences are smaller than laborsupply …

. Findings for another indicator of traditional gender roles, source country fertility rates, are broadly similar, with … substantial and persistent negative effects of source country fertility on the labor supply of female immigrants except when we …

migrating and female labor supply in their source country to provide evidence on the role of human capital and culture in … culture and norms in affecting immigrant women's labor supply, since the effect of source country female labor supply on …

gender differences in labor market outcomes. We ask how malleable this gender difference in time allocation is to culture. In …