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来源类型 | Working Paper |
规范类型 | 报告 |
DOI | 10.3386/w14266 |
来源ID | Working Paper 14266 |
Fertility Theories: Can They Explain the Negative Fertility-Income Relationship? | |
Larry E. Jones; Alice Schoonbroodt; Michèle Tertilt | |
发表日期 | 2008-08-21 |
出版年 | 2008 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | In this chapter we revisit the relationship between income and fertility. There is overwhelming empirical evidence that fertility is negatively related to income in most countries at most times. Several theories have been proposed in the literature to explain this somewhat puzzling fact. The most common one is based on the opportunity cost of time being higher for individuals with higher earnings. Alternatively, people might differ in their desire to procreate and accordingly some people invest more in children and less in market-specific human capital and thus have lower earnings. We revisit these and other possible explanations. We find that these theories are not as robust as is commonly believed. That is, several special assumptions are needed to generate the negative relationship. Not all assumptions are equally plausible. Such findings will be useful to distinguish alternative theories. We conclude that further research along these lines is needed. |
主题 | Microeconomics ; Households and Firms ; Labor Economics ; Demography and Aging |
URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w14266 |
来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/571938 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Larry E. Jones,Alice Schoonbroodt,Michèle Tertilt. Fertility Theories: Can They Explain the Negative Fertility-Income Relationship?. 2008. |
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