Religion’s influence on fertility expectations : contemporary evidence from a multi-religious society

• Main Authors: Tan, Matthew, Lian, Huiting, Han, Alicia
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Economic theory
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/59300
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This paper examines the effect of religious affiliation and religiosity on fertility expectations of local undergraduates in the multi-religious state of Singapore. It finds that Singaporean Buddhist and Protestant Christian undergraduates desire significantly fewer children than the ben...