TY  - JOUR
AU  - Fernández,Raquel
AU  - Fogli,Alessandra
TI  - Fertility: The Role of Culture and Family Experience
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 11569
PY  - 2005
Y2  - August 2005
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w11569
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w11569.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Raquel Fernández
Department of Economics
New York University
19 West 4th Street, 6th Floor
New York, NY  10012
Tel: 212/998-8908
Fax: 212/995-4186
E-Mail: raquel.fernandez@nyu.edu

Alessandra Fogli
Universita' Bocconi
Department of Economics
Via Roentgen, 1 - 20136 Milano, Italy
Phone:  +39 02 5836 5529
E-Mail: afogli@umn.edu
AB  - This paper attempts to disentangle the direct effects of experience from those of culture in determining fertility. We use the GSS to examine the fertility of women born in the US but from different ethnic backgrounds. We take lagged values of the total fertility rate in the woman's country of ancestry as the cultural proxy and use the woman's number of siblings to capture her direct family experience. We find that both variables are significant determinants of fertility, even after controlling for several individual and family-level characteristics.
ER  -