Religion as a determinant of marital fertility

Lehrer, Evelyn L.

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“…2 Lehrer (1996) predicted that spouses with the same religious affiliation would have lower divorce rates and more children than couples with different religious affiliations. This hypothesis is not supported by our data: while in the great majority of couples (over 95%), both spouses are Catholic, they have quite low fertility rates.…”

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Intergenerational transmission of ‘religious capital’. Evidence from Spain

Brañas–Garza¹,

García-Muñoz²,

Neuman³

2011

Rev. int. sociol.

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This paper examines intergenerational transmission of 'religious capital' from parents to their offspring within an economic framework. The analytical tool is a 'production function of religiosity' where parental religious inputs serve as factors of production. The database used is based on a large-scale survey that was conducted in 1998 in Spain. In addition to information on the religious affiliation of the respondent and his parents, it has detailed data on two dimensions of the individual's religious performance: church attendance and prayer. it also includes information on the mother's and father's church attendance when the respondent was a child, as well as the respondent's participation in mass services at the age of 12. socio-economic background data are also available. The core findings are: (i) parental religious inputs significantly affect individuals' religiosity; (ii) interestingly, the route of intergenerational transmission is from mother to daughter and from father to son; and (iii) current mass participation of respondents is more affected by parental-than by own childhood mass attendance. KeywordsCatholic, Church Attendance, Intergenerational transmission, Prayer, Production.* During the time we were working on this paper we were unable to get the new dataset (ISSP-2008). We were aware of that the new wave was on the way but it was impossible to incorporate it on time. in fact the Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas (CIS) did not offered it until late 2010. We apologize for any inconvenience. As the Editor indicated is a basic and necessary empirical exercise to compare both waves (1998 y 2008) in order to improve our knowledge of this phenomena. Now, we have started to perform this analysis. revisTa inTernacional de socioloGía (ris) resuMenEn este estudio se examina la transmisión inter-generacional de capital religioso de padres a hijos, bajo un esquema de producción de 'religiosidad' donde los inputs parentales sirven como factores de producción. la base de datos utilizada está basada en una encuesta realizada en España en 1998. Se dispone de información sobre la afiliación religiosa del individuo y sus padres, la asistencia a misa y la oración del individuo (actualmente) y la asistencia a la iglesia de la madre y el padre y del propio individuo cuando este era niño (a los 12 años). Encontramos que los inputs religiosos parentales afectan de manera significativa a la religiosidad individual, pero la vía de transmisión inter-generacional es de madre a hija y de padre a hijo. Sorprendentemente, la participación actual en actividades religiosas está más afectada por las características religiosas parentales que por la propia actividad religiosa durante la infancia. Palabras claveAsistencia a la Iglesia, Católico, Oración, Producción, Transmisión Intergeneracional.

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Intergenerational transmission of ‘religious capital’. Evidence from Spain

Brañas–Garza¹,

García-Muñoz²,

Neuman³

2011

Rev. int. sociol.

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“…Among denominations, previous analyses of the behavior of Catholics are the most relevant for this paper since the majority of Spaniards consider themselves Catholics. In the late 1970s, after years of consensus that Catholics had significantly larger families than non-Catholics living in the US, Westoff and Jones (1979) pointed out that fertility rates of those groups were rapidly converging due to the sharp decrease in Catholic fertility, a result confirmed in subsequent research (Lehrer 1996). O'Grada (1995) found a similar convergence in Northern Ireland.…”

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Marital Fertility and Religion: Recent Changes in Spain

Adserà

2004

SSRN Journal

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in Marital Fertility and Religion: Recent Changes in SpainAlicia Adsera The Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn is a local and virtual international research center and a place of communication between science, politics and business. IZA is an independent nonprofit company supported by Deutsche Post World Net. The center is associated with the University of Bonn and offers a stimulating research environment through its research networks, research support, and visitors and doctoral programs. IZA engages in (i) original and internationally competitive research in all fields of labor economics, (ii) development of policy concepts, and (iii) dissemination of research results and concepts to the interested public. D I S C U S S I O N P A P E R S E R I E SIZA Discussion Papers often represent preliminary work and are circulated to encourage discussion. Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. A revised version may be available directly from the author.

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“…An often cited example relates to Jews in the US who have birth rates that are even lower than the US average. On the other hand, Mormons in the US have high birth rates (much higher than the country average; Heaton, 1986 andLehrer, 1996), most probably because they live in closed and isolated communities and therefore enjoy a very high q.…”

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“…However, it has often been claimed that there is a positive relationship between fertility and current religiosity. Research on the relationship between current religiosity and fertility is mainly empirical and has taken two directions: one examined differences in fertility between religions that coexist in the same country (e.g., Lehrer, 1996;Morgan et al, 2002;Borooah, 2004;Schellekens and van Poppel, 2006); and a second, more limited line, linked differences in fertility within a given religion to the individual's intensity of religious practice (e.g., Mosher and Hendershot, 1984;Neuman and Ziderman, 1986;Sander, 1992;Amin et al, 1997;Brañas-Garza and Neuman, 2007). These two lines are intertwined -intensive religious practice will influence fertility only if the religion has a pro-natalist ideology.…”

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The evolution of secularization: cultural transmission, religion and fertility—theory, simulations and evidence

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. www.econstor.eu (2000, 2001a), it is assumed that cultural/social norms are transmitted from one generation to the next one via two venues: (i) direct socialization -across generations, by parents; and (ii) oblique socialization -within generations, by the community and cultural environment. This paper focuses on the transmission of religious norms and in particular on the 'religious taste for children'. The theoretical framework describes the setting and the process leading to secularization of the population; the simulations give more insight into the process; and 'secularization regressions' estimate the effects of the various explanatory variables on secularization (that is measured by rare mass-attendance and by rare-prayer), lending support to corollaries derived from the theory and simulations. The main conclusions/findings are that (i) direct religious socialization efforts of one generation have a negative effect on secularization within the next generation; (ii) oblique socialization by the community has a parabolic effect on secularization; and (iii) the two types of socialization are complements in 'producing' religiosity of the next generation. Terms of use: Documents in D I S C U S S I O N P A P E R S E R I E SJEL Classification: C15, C25, D13, J11, J13, Z12

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Religion as a determinant of marital fertility

Abstract: Jl, Jll, J13, Religion, Fertility, marriage,

Cited by 135 publications

References 35 publications

Intergenerational transmission of ‘religious capital’. Evidence from Spain

Intergenerational transmission of ‘religious capital’. Evidence from Spain

Marital Fertility and Religion: Recent Changes in Spain

The evolution of secularization: cultural transmission, religion and fertility—theory, simulations and evidence

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