This paper focuses on the role of home country’s fertility culture in shaping immigrants’ fertility. I use the German … Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) to study completed fertility of first-generation immigrants who arrived from different countries … and in different years. The variation in total fertility rates (TFRs) across countries and over time serves as a proxy for …

The current study finds that societies which historically engaged in plough agriculture today have lower fertility. We … fertility. …

The current study finds that societies which historically engaged in plough agriculture today have lower fertility. We … fertility. …

The current study finds that societies which historically engaged in plough agriculture today have lower fertility. We … fertility. …

with the home country fertility norm, whereas the timing of the first two births is either unaffected or negatively …

fertility among minor women, aged 21 or younger, for whom access restrictions were most drastically lifted. We then evaluate how … examining its impact on female fertility control and human capital formation. We find that younger women who grew up in more …

conservative areas were more likely to delay fertility/marriage and to accumulate human capital in the long run. We then show how …

extent they, in turn, materialize into fertility decisions. We also test the hypothesis that exposure to gender … impact of gender beliefs on fertility. Our empirical analysis is based on World Value Survey (WVS) data for five Muslim ex … turn, do not translate into higher fertility in Muslim ex-USSR Republics, while the opposite holds for other Muslim …