The Effect of Culture on Fertility Behavior of US Teen Mothers

Bellido, Héctor; Marcén, Miriam; Molina, José Alberto

doi:10.1080/13545701.2015.1120881

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“…Utilizing empirical strategies analogous to ours, researchers have shown the substantial effect of culture on women's labor force participation and fertility (Contreras and Plaza 2010;Fernández and Fogli 2006;Fernández 2007;Fernández and Fogli 2009), unemployment (Brügger et al 2009), self-employment (Marcén 2014), the search for a job (Eugster et al 2016), on living arrangements (Giuliano 2007), divorce (Furtado et al 2013), on the math gender gap (Nollenberger et al 2016), and even on the fertility behavior of teen women (Bellido et al 2016). We contribute to these lines of research by extending the analysis on the impact of culture on the number children born.…”

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“…So, for example, this would imply that having no children is equally acceptable for young women as for those at the end of their fertility years, or having few children is equally acceptable to society for those women with a high level of education, or who are employed, as for those with a low level of education, or those who are inactive in the labor market. This can be a strong assumption, since, even in a country in which the social norm is that women should have many children, it is possible to argue that the fertility culture differs depending on women's characteristics, as Bellido et al (2016) show for the case of teen motherhood. For this reason, we prefer to build our cultural proxy using data from the country of origin censuses, which allows us to consider possible fertility-cultural differences by age, education level, and employment status.…”

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“…For consistency, all our estimates have been repeated without those women and our results are similar. The effect of fertility culture on teen motherhood is examined in Bellido et al (2016). 10 We revisit the Chinese case below.…”

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The effect of culture on the fertility decisions of immigrant women in the United States

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This paper examines whether culture plays a role in the number of children born. To explore this issue, we use data on immigrant women who arrived in the United States under 6 years old. Since all these women are resident in the same country from their early lives, and grew up under the same laws, institutions, and economic conditions, then the differences between them by country of origin may be due to cultural differences, as the epidemiological approach suggests. Following that approach, we identify the cultural effect, exploiting variations in the mean number of children born by country of origin, using data from the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series International that allows us to measure more precisely the cultural proxy by age, education level, and employment status. Results show that the home-country mean number of children born has a positive and statistically significant relationship to the number of children born of immigrants living in the US, suggesting that culture is important. Our findings are robust to the introduction of several home country variables, and to the use of different subsamples. Our results are maintained when we control for unobservable characteristics by country of origin. Additionally, we extend this work to an analysis of both the decision to have children and the number of children born, finding again that culture appears to play a significant role.

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“…Similarly, we would also prefer to include as dependent variable the number of live births per country of origin of women, but as in the case of education, this information is quite limited. The incorporation of the immigrant population to this analysis is relevant since their fertility behavior may be different from that of native-born women (Bellido et al 2016;Kahn 1994) and there can also be differences in their response to an unemployment situation. With the limitation of the data, we can only address this issue by incorporating as control the annual percentage of immigrants over the total population in each country in Column (4) of Table 5.…”

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Fertility and the business cycle: the European case

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2019

Rev Econ Household

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This paper analyzes the role of the business cycle in fertility, using data from 30 European countries for the period 1991 to 2013. We find that the unemployment rate, utilized as a proxy for the evolution of the business cycle, negatively affects the fertility rate, at least in the short term. This is maintained even when we control for the welfare generosity of the European countries, and for other socioeconomic variables and unobservable characteristics that can vary by country and/or over time. Our results suggest that fertility decisions behave in a pro-cyclical way, although the effect of the business cycle variations is quite moderate. By age of women, we observe differences in the response of the fertility rate, with the impact of economic problems being lower for those who are at the end of their childbearing years. Supplementary analysis, developed to explore the impact of the business cycle on the entire distribution of the fertility rate, indicates that the effect of the unemployment rate varies considerably, having a strong effect on the fertility rate at higher quantiles, corresponding with higher fertility rates.

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“…Results do not vary when we exclude these controls. We have incorporated all these controls in the paper, as do other works examining the home-ownership decision.14 Note that, using the cultural proxy by marital status we do not lose observations, as in the case of the cultural proxy measured by employment status.15 See a similar strategy inFurtado et al (2013) and.16 We have chosen country-of-origin Censuses as close as possible to the year 1970 (seeTable A2in the Appendix).17 The variation in the sample size is due to the availability of information for the 1970s.18 The omitted decade is the 1940s.19 The relationship between culture and home-ownership can be more complex than that between culture and, for example, fertility, where the fertility culture has been detected even in teenagers(Bellido et al 2016).…”

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The effect of culture on home‐ownership

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Morales

2019

Journal of Regional Science

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In this paper, we analyze the role of culture in determining whether, or not, an individual is a homeowner. We use data on first-generation immigrants who arrived in the United States under six years old. Following the epidemiological approach, any dissimilarity in the proportion of homeowners by country of origin may be interpreted as a consequence of cultural differences. Our estimates indicate that there is a positive and statistically significant relationship between the cultural proxy and the immigrants' choice of home-ownership. Additionally, we present evidence of different mechanisms of transmission of culture, which reinforces our results on the cultural effect.

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The Effect of Culture on Fertility Behavior of US Teen Mothers

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The effect of culture on the fertility decisions of immigrant women in the United States

The effect of culture on the fertility decisions of immigrant women in the United States

Fertility and the business cycle: the European case

The effect of culture on home‐ownership

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