International Migration, Transfers of Norms and Home Country Fertility
By Michel Beine, Frédéric Docquier, Maurice Schiff. Social Science Research Network, 2008
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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. We provide a rigorous test of the diffusion of fertility norms using original and detailed data on migration. Our results provide evidence of a strong transfer of fertility norms from migrants to their country of origin.
Subfields: Sociology and Political Science
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- Bringing It All Back Home – Return Migration and Fertility Choices (2015, methodology): “Section 4 presents the estimates and the robustness checks, and Section 5 discusses the main results of the econometric 5See Beine, Docquier, and Schiff (2008) and Mountford and Rapoport (2011) for an overview of the channels through which migration can influence fertility decisions at origin.”
- Impact of Migration on Economic and Social Development: A Review of Evidence and Emerging Issues (2011, unknown): “22 Beine et al. (2009) find that one percent decrease in the fertility norm in the migrant destination countries reduces fertility rates in the origin country by about 0.3 percent.”