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- Title
Religiosität und Fertilität: Eine empirische Untersuchung des Einflusses von Religiosität auf Elternschaft und Kinderzahl.
- Authors
Sandmann, Tim; Preisner, Klaus
- Abstract
The effect of religiosity on a) the likelihood to have children, and b) the number of children is analyzed for East- and West-Germany using the Allgemeine Bevölkerungsumfrage der Sozialwissenschaften 2012 data and poisson-logit hurdle models. Religiosity is measured with Huber and Huber's multidimensional concept of centrality. At first, the effect of religiosity on the likelihood to have children and the number of children is analyzed for East and West Germany - showing that religiosity influences fertility only in West Germany. Finally, mediator variables such as value of children, fertility norms, opinion on birth control, traditional gender roles as well as marriage patterns are used to explain why centrality increases fertility in West Germany. The analyses show that religious persons are more likely to have children, in particular because they more often marry. Although the mediator variables show the expected correlations with religiosity and family size, the mediators hardly explain the greater number of children in religious people.
- Publication
Zeitschrift für Familienforschung (ZzF), 2017, Vol 29, Issue 3, p298
- ISSN
1437-2940
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3224/zff.v29i3.03