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 …

fertility, human capital and work orientation of immigrants to their US-born children. We find that second-generation women …'s fertility and labor supply are significantly positively affected by the immigrant generation's fertility and labor supply … respectively, with the effect of mother's fertility and labor supply larger than that of women from the father's source country …

. 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 …

. 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 …

. 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 …