International migration, transfers of norms and home country fertility:

"This paper examines the relationship between international migration and source country fertility. The impact of international migration on source country fertility may have a number of causes, including a transfer of destination countries' fertility norms and an incentive to acquire more...

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Main Author: Beine, Michel (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: [Washington, D.C] World Bank 2009
Series:Policy research working paper 4925
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Online Access:Volltext
Summary:"This paper examines the relationship between international migration and source country fertility. The impact of international migration on source country fertility may have a number of causes, including a transfer of destination countries' fertility norms and an incentive to acquire more education. It provides provide a rigorous test of the diffusion on of fertility norms using original and detailed data on migration. The results provide evidence of a significant transfer of fertility norms from migrants to their country of origin: a one percent decrease in the fertility norm to which migrants are exposed reduces home country fertility by about 0.3 percent for origin countries. "--World Bank web site
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references. - Title from PDF file as viewed on 5/7/2009
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource
DOI:10.1596/1813-9450-4925