Religion and fertility: The French connection

Baudin, Thierry

doi:10.4054/demres.2015.32.13

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“…Adsera (, ) shows that, in a secular society, religion predicts both a higher fertility norm and actual fertility. Baudin () has similar findings on French data. Berman et al.…”

Section: Introductionsupporting

confidence: 69%

Religions, Fertility, and Growth in Southeast Asia

Croix

Delavallade

2018

Int Economic Review

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We investigate the extent to which the pronatalism of religions impedes growth via the fertility/education channel. Using Southeast Asian censuses, we show empirically that being Catholic, Buddhist, or Muslim significantly raises fertility, especially for couples with intermediate to high education levels. With these estimates, we identify the parameters of a structural model. Catholicism is strongly pro-child (increasing total spending on children), followed by Buddhism, whereas Islam is more pro-birth (redirecting spending from quality to quantity). Pro-child religions depress growth in its early stages by lowering savings and labor supply. In the later stages of growth, pro-birth religions impede human capital accumulation. * Manuscript

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“…Adsera (, ) shows that, in a secular society, religion predicts both a higher fertility norm and actual fertility. Baudin () has similar findings on French data. Berman et al.…”

Section: Introductionsupporting

confidence: 69%

Religions, Fertility, and Growth in Southeast Asia

Croix

Delavallade

2018

Int Economic Review

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“…Additionally, de la Croix and Delavallade (2015) look at how different religions' pronatalism is detrimental to growth via the fertility/education channel. Religiosity instead captures the possibility that level of practice, rather than type of faith, actually matters as suggested in Baudin (2015). When applicable, I also control for the timing of previous births in order to pick up potential biological correlations between the birth spacing across parities.…”

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confidence: 99%

Adherence to cultural norms and economic incentives: Evidence from fertility timing decisions

Chabé-Ferret

2019

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization

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I analyze the interplay between culture and economic incentives in decision-making. To this end, I study birth timing decisions of second generation migrant women to France and the US. Only the probability to have three or more children increases with the home country fertility norm, whereas the timing of the first two births is either unaffected or negatively correlated. I propose a model that rationalizes these findings in which decisions are the result of a trade-off between an economic cost-benefit analysis and a cultural norm. The model predicts that decisions with a higher cost of deviation from the economic optimum should be less prone to cultural influence. This is consistent with substantial evidence showing that the timing of the first birth bears much larger costs for mothers in terms of labor market outcomes than that of subsequent births.

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“…The second limitation is connected to analysing females of reproductive age, which implies that fertility might not be completed; we can study the number of children ever born but not the complete fertility of a couple. Therefore, this analysis might contain both tempo and quantum effects (compare Baudin 2015). For instance, higher-educated individuals might have a higher probability of having no children, which could be caused either by postponing the first childbirth or by the higher chance of definite childlessness.…”

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Childlessness and fertility by couples' educational gender (in)equality in Austria, Bulgaria, and France

Osiewalska¹

2017

DemRes

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Religion and fertility: The French connection

Cited by 38 publications

References 32 publications

Religions, Fertility, and Growth in Southeast Asia

Religions, Fertility, and Growth in Southeast Asia

Adherence to cultural norms and economic incentives: Evidence from fertility timing decisions

Childlessness and fertility by couples' educational gender (in)equality in Austria, Bulgaria, and France

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