Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/170913 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 10929
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We study the effect of residential segregation on fertility for the socially excluded and marginalized Roma ethnic minority. Using original survey data we collected in Serbia, we investigate whether fertility differs between ethnically homogeneous and mixed neighbor- hoods. Our results show that Roma in less segregated areas tend to have significantly fewer children (around 0.9). Most of the difference arises from Roma in less segregated areas waiting substantially more after having a boy than their counterparts in more segregated areas. We account for the endogeneity of the level of segregation using (il)legal possibility to build in the area at the time of its creation as an instrument. We find that the true gap due to segregation is actually larger than that estimated by OLS (around 1.4). We finally provide evidence that exposure to the Serbian majority culture is the main mechanism at play, as opposed to differences in opportunity cost of time, migration patterns, family arrangements and returns to education.
Subjects: 
fertility
residential segregation
ethnic minority
culture
JEL: 
J13
J15
R23
Z10
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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