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Marital Fertility and Religion: Recent Changes in Spain

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Adsera, Alicia () (University of Illinois at Chicago, University of Chicago and IZA Bonn)

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Since the onset of democracy in 1975, both total fertility and Mass attendance rates in Spain have dropped dramatically. I use the 1985 and 1999 Spanish Fertility Surveys to study whether the significance of religion in fertility behavior - both in family size and in the spacing of births - has changed. While in the 1985 SFS family size was similar among practicing and non-practicing Catholics, practicing Catholics portray significantly higher fertility during recent years. In the context of lower church participation, religiosity has acquired a more relevant meaning for demographic behavior. Among the youngest generation, non-practicing Catholics behave as those without affiliation. The small group of Protestants and Muslims has the highest fertility and interfaith unions are less fertile.

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Paper provided by Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in its series IZA Discussion Papers with number 1399.

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Keywords: fertility; religion; religiosity; Spain; timing of births;

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