This paper makes an empirical analysis of the effect of a common origin within a couple on fertility. We use the Bank … of Italy’s Survey of Household Income and Wealth (SHIW) to examine the fertility of a sample of Italian women and find …, family-level, and area-of-residence characteristics. We also find that the impact of homogamy on fertility is stronger for …

sex-selective abortions, the fertility decisions of Armenian, Georgian, and Azeri parents living in Russia in the late … that the observed increase in the sex ratio at birth in the Caucasus since the end of the Soviet Union at least partially …

We study the effects of the cancellation of a sizeable child benefit in Spain on birth timing and neonatal health. In … after January 1st, 2011. We use detailed micro data from birth certificates from 2000 to 2011, and find that more than 2 …,000 families were able to anticipate the date of birth of their babies from (early) January 2011 to (late) December 2010 (for a …

This paper investigates the net impact of birth control policy in China on educational attainment of the partially … more stringent enforcement of the birth control policy reduces educational attainment of urban ethnic minorities … children. For rural ethnic minorities, however, the level of enforcement of the birth control policy does not significantly …

enforcement measures to identify their impact on undocumented immigrants' fertility. Using data from the 2005 through 2014 … an intensified fear of deportation, on likely unauthorized women's fertility. Given immigrants' critical contribution to …

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 …

This paper explores the fertility decisions of Canadian immigrants using a 20 percent sample of the Canadian Census of … to assess their process of assimilation in terms of fertility. Our analysis does not show any sharp discontinuity in … fertility by age at migration as sometimes observed on education or labor market outcomes. Instead, there is an inverted U shape …

Based on a 1% sample of the German population, we study how fertility rates in the country of origin—a proxy for … cultural imprint—influence the fertility outcomes of first- and second-generation female immigrants. We use both total … fertility rates in the year of migration and a new measure of completed cohort fertility rates in the countries of origin as …

dissolution as well as fertility among immigrants, and examines the evidence collected from the main studies in the area. The … may explain the fertility behavior of first generation immigrants; namely, selection, disruption and adaptation. The …