Örsal, Deniz D. Karaman; Goldstein, Joshua R. - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2010
This paper investigates whether there has been a fundamental change in the importance of economic conditions on fertility. Through the 1980s econometric studies had found at best a mixed, neutral or negative effect of economic conditions on fertility. Notably, Butz and Ward (1979) concluded that...