Kao-Lee Liaw
Ji-Ping Lin
Chien-Chia Liu

http://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol24/26/

doi:10.4054/DemRes.2011.24.26

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Abstract

This research studies the reproductive contributions of Taiwan’s foreign wives from China, Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand, and the Philippines, based on applications of the multinomial logit model to the micro data of the 2003 Census of Foreign Spouses. Wives from China are found to have the lowest lifetime fertility of 1.4 children, mainly because they were more prone to marry later, have a very large spousal age gap, be separated or divorced, and have their current marriage be their second marriage. The effect of wife’s educational attainment on lifetime fertility turned out to be either modest or nonexistent.

Author's affiliation
Kao-Lee Liaw
McMaster University, Canada
Ji-Ping Lin
Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Chien-Chia Liu
Academia Sinica, Taiwan

Keywords
fertility, international marriage, international migration, reproductive contribution, Taiwan

Word count (Main text)
11711

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