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The Transmission of Women's Fertility, Human Capital and Work Orientation Across Immigrant Generations

Francine D. Blau, Lawrence M. Kahn, Albert Yung-Hsu Liu, Kerry L. Papps

NBER Working Paper No. 14388*
Issued in October 2008
NBER Program(s):   LS

Using 1995–2006 Current Population Survey and 1970–2000 Census data, we find that the fertility, education and labor supply of US-born women with foreign-born parent(s) are significantly positively affected by the immigrant generation’s levels of these variables, with the effect of the fertility and labor supply of women from the mother’s source country larger than that of women from the father’s source country and the effect of the education of men from the father’s source country larger than that of women from the mother’s source country. Transmission rates for immigrant fertility between generations are higher than for labor supply or education, with considerable intergenerational assimilation toward native levels of schooling and labor supply, but more persistence for fertility.

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