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Intergenerational Transmission of Fertility Patterns *
Author(s) -
Booth Alison L.,
Kee Hiau Joo
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
oxford bulletin of economics and statistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.131
H-Index - 73
eISSN - 1468-0084
pISSN - 0305-9049
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0084.2008.00524.x
Subject(s) - fertility , affect (linguistics) , demography , quantile regression , total fertility rate , sample (material) , survey data collection , cultural transmission in animals , population , demographic economics , economics , geography , sociology , family planning , econometrics , research methodology , statistics , biology , chemistry , mathematics , communication , chromatography , genetics
Recent studies by economists have focused on cultural transmission from the origin country rather than the origin family. Our paper extends this research by investigating how family‐specific ‘cultural transmission’ can affect fertility rates. Following Machado and Santos Silva [ Journal of the American Statistical Association (2005) Vol. 100, p. 1226] and Miranda [ Journal of Population Economics (2008) Vol. 21, p. 67], we estimate count data quantile regression models using the British Household Panel Survey. We find that a woman's origin‐family size is positively associated with completed fertility in her destination family. A woman's country of birth also matters for her fertility. For a sub‐sample of continuously partnered men and women, both partners’ origin‐family sizes significantly affect destination‐family fertility.