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Title: Intergenerational Transmission of Culture Among Second-and-Higher Generation Immigrants: the Case of Age at First Birth and Nonmarital Childbirth

Citation Type: Journal Article

Publication Year: 2023

ISBN: 0123456789

ISSN: 2520-842X

DOI: 10.1007/S41996-022-00103-X

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Abstract: This paper uses immigration to investigate the intergenerational transmission of culture. The culture is proxied by nonmarital fertility and age at the first birth in the immigrant’s home country. Using the Current Population Survey, Censuses, and American Community Survey data covering the years 1970–2020, we find that average outcomes in the home country can explain a statistically significant portion of immigrants’ behavior. Furthermore, we rule out the influence of confounders by including a rich set of demographic and socioeconomic familial controls, other important home country characteristics, as well as state-by-year fixed effects. We find that a one-percentage-point increase in nonmarital fertility rate in the mother’s country of birth is associated with an 8.7 basis-point increase in the likelihood of nonmarital birth among second-generation women. Similarly, a one-year increase in age at first birth in the mother’s birthplace is associated with 0.37 years increase in age at first birth among second generations. The results show that there are cultural factors associated with nonmarital fertility and age at the first birth that can be transmitted from one generation to the next.

Url: https://doi.org/10.1007/s41996-022-00103-x

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Authors: Noghanibehambari, Hamid; Tavassoli, Nahid; Noghani, Farzaneh

Periodical (Full): Journal of Economics, Race, and Policy

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Volume: 6

Pages: 1-18

Data Collections: IPUMS USA, IPUMS CPS

Topics: Family and Marriage, Fertility and Mortality, Migration and Immigration

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