decision making to human fertility behavior. Theoretical emphasis has been given to the effects of the costs of parental tine … time, especially the value of the wife's time. One important objection to static theories of fertility is their failure to … theoretical and econometric model of fertility behavior within a sequential stochastic framework. The principal contribution of …

This article demonstrates the value of microdata for understanding the effect of wages on life cycle fertility dynamics …. Conventional estimates of neoclassical economic fertility models obtained from linear aggregate time series regressions are widely …. This article demonstrates, that when neoclassical models of fertility are estimated on microdata using methods that …