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The dangers of using ‘negative durations’ to estimate pre- and post-migration fertility

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  • Jan Hoem
  • Lesia Nedoluzhko

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To keep childbearing that occurs before and after migration separate from each other, many analysts apply a technique that uses ‘negative durations’ to estimate the childbearing risks that migrants have before they migrate. This strategy can lead to incorrect results and should be abandoned. In this research note, we use data for births and internal migration in Sweden to highlight how the two types of behaviour can be kept apart conceptually and analytically without use of ‘negative durations’. The procedures used can easily be generalized to any similarly linked pair of behaviours.

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  • Jan Hoem & Lesia Nedoluzhko, 2016. "The dangers of using ‘negative durations’ to estimate pre- and post-migration fertility," Population Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 70(3), pages 359-363, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rpstxx:v:70:y:2016:i:3:p:359-363
    DOI: 10.1080/00324728.2016.1221442
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    1. Ben Wilson, 2020. "Understanding How Immigrant Fertility Differentials Vary over the Reproductive Life Course," European Journal of Population, Springer;European Association for Population Studies, vol. 36(3), pages 465-498, July.
    2. Jonathan Lindström & Eleonora Mussino & Livia Sz. Oláh, 2022. "Childbearing among Polish migrant women and their descendants in Sweden: an origin-destination country approach," Journal of Population Research, Springer, vol. 39(1), pages 133-155, March.
    3. Roberto Impicciatore & Giuseppe Gabrielli & Anna Paterno, 2020. "Migrants’ Fertility in Italy: A Comparison Between Origin and Destination," European Journal of Population, Springer;European Association for Population Studies, vol. 36(4), pages 799-825, September.

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