Jeon, Yongil; Shields, Michael P. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
fertility cycles,
called the Easterlin hypothesis.
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He contends that twists in the age structure
influence fertility for ….
The Easterlin hypothesis that twists in the age structure can influence births
could hold for several reasons. First …, the age structure could affect fertility because
it changes the income of young adults relative to the income of their …