TY  - JOUR
AU  - Blau,Francine D.
AU  - Kahn,Lawrence M.
AU  - Liu,Albert Yung-Hsu
AU  - Papps,Kerry L.
TI  - The Transmission of Women's Fertility, Human Capital and Work Orientation Across Immigrant Generations
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 14388
PY  - 2008
Y2  - October 2008
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w14388
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w14388.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Francine D. Blau
ILR School
Cornell University
268 Ives Hall
Ithaca, New York 14853-3901
Tel: 607/255-4381
Fax: 607/255-4496
E-Mail: fdb4@cornell.edu

Lawrence Kahn
ILR School
Cornell University
258 Ives Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853
Tel: 607-255-0510
Fax: 607-255-4496
E-Mail: lmk12@cornell.edu

Albert Yung-Hsu Liu
Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.
505 14th St., Suite 800
Oakland, CA 94612-1475
E-Mail: aliu@mathematica-mpr.com

Kerry Papps
Department of Economics
University of Bath
Bath, BA2 7AY
UNITED KINGDOM
E-Mail: k.l.papps@bath.ac.uk
AB  - Using 1995–2011 Current Population Survey and 1970–2000 Census data, we find that the fertility, education and labor supply of second generation women (US-born women with at least one foreign-born parent) 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 generally 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. We present some evidence that suggests our findings for fertility and labor supply are due to at least in part to intergenerational transmission of gender roles. Transmission rates for immigrant fertility and labor supply between generations are higher than for education, but there is considerable intergenerational assimilation toward native levels for all three of these outcomes.
ER  -