Comparison of short-term fertility intentions of albanian women in Italy with non-migrants in Albania and italian women

The central aim of this paper is to get a deeper understanding of short-term fertility intentions of native, migrant and non-migrant partnered women by testing for adaptation, socialization and selection theories while applying an origin-destination perspective. To find support for these hypotheses,...

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Published inStatistical methods & applications Vol. 33; no. 3; pp. 999 - 1024
Main Authors García-Pereiro, Thaís, Paterno, Ana
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.07.2024
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects
Adaptation
Chemistry and Earth Sciences
Computer Science
Economics
Fertility
Finance
Health Sciences
Humanities
Insurance
Law
Management
Mathematics and Statistics
Medicine
Original Paper
Physics
Regression models
Statistical Theory and Methods
Statistics
Statistics for Business
Statistics for Engineering
Statistics for Life Sciences
Statistics for Social Sciences
Italy
Albania
Italy
Migrant women
Multivariate nonlinear decomposition
(4–6): fertility intentions
Data linkage
Albania
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Summary:The central aim of this paper is to get a deeper understanding of short-term fertility intentions of native, migrant and non-migrant partnered women by testing for adaptation, socialization and selection theories while applying an origin-destination perspective. To find support for these hypotheses, data was drawn from several sources (FSS and SCIF for Italy, DHS for Albania), harmonized and merged into a unique dataset combining information on partnered women according to their migrant/non-migrant status. Binary regression models on positive fertility intentions, Average Marginal Effects, Adjusted Predictions for Prototypical Cases and multivariate non-linear decompositions are estimated to account for differences and/or similarities across groups of women. Results found that positive fertility intentions of Albanian migrant women resemble those of Italian women and are significantly lower than those of non-migrants, supporting adaptation theory. Findings also reported selection into migration, given that the gap in likelihood of being intended to have a child would be reduced if migrants were like non-migrants in terms of their educational attainment.
ISSN:1618-2510
1613-981X
DOI:10.1007/s10260-023-00715-z