L’objet de cet article est, dans un premier temps, de présenter les principales théories économiques de la fécondité relatives aux pays développés puis, dans un second temps de fournir un test empirique pour le cas de la France, de la relation de causalité entre la fécondité et les...

The aim of this article is to present the main economic theories on fertility related to the developed countries. After the specification, in the introduction, of the interest of the economic analysis to explain the fertility behaviour of the households, we will present the two key models...

This article is aimed firstly at providing an empirical test of the causality link between fertility and education in France after World War II and subsequently at determining whether the underlying mechanism of the link was in agreement more with Becker's theory or that of Easterlin. It was...

Spectral analysis is a particularly valuable method for seeking dependences expressed as lags between different magnitudes. Its use in this article was first determined by the search for maximum objectivity in the observation of time series. The possibility of applying it to a large number of...