Minority-Group Status and Fertility: A Study of Japanese and Chinese in Hawaii and California

Abstract

Since there is a racial majority in California but not in Hawaii, these two states provide a natural experiment for testing the minority-status theory of fertility. The following propositions were deduced from the theory: (1) no net differences in Japanese, Chinese, and white fertility in Hawaii; (2) lower Japanese, and Chinese than white fertility in California; (3) lower Japanese and Chinese fertility in California than in Hawaii. Support for the first and third propositions and partial support for the second proposition in 1970 census public-use samples suggest that minority status may have depressed the fertility of currently married Japanese and Chinese women in California. The implications are explored.

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