More on Religion and Fertility: The French Connection - Université de Lille
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More on Religion and Fertility: The French Connection

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This paper contributes to the study of the relationship between religion and fertility. More speci cally, I investigate the impact of being Catholic on fertility in France. Fertility is measured either by the number of children ever born or by completed fertility. I show that women who are strong practicers have signi cantly more children than other women ; however, being a Catholic believer has no signi cant impact on fertility. I also construct two variables allowing me to detect that the particularized ideology mechanisms can partially explain why religion has an impact on fertility in my dataset. Nevertheless, I cannot exclude the social interactions hypothesis. The multivariate analysis I provide also validates the main mechanisms of the rational actor model.
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hal-00993310 , version 1 (20-05-2014)

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Thomas Baudin. More on Religion and Fertility: The French Connection. 2012. ⟨hal-00993310⟩
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