access to educational opportunities could permanently reduce inequality. Empirical evidence suggests that the fertility …

fertility of an innovation in generating more innovations cannot be observed. The menu of patent scope can be implemented with … mandated buyout fees. Evidence of heterogeneous fertility and patent obsolescence, keys to the model, are presented using …

developing countries. This paper presents a theoretical model which integrates micro-level decision making about fertility and …

Over the past century fertility behavior in the United Stated has undergone profound changes Measured by cohort … fertility the average number of children per married woman had declined from about 5.5 children at the time of the Civil War to … took place in the dispersion of fertility among these women: the percentage of women with, say, seven or more children …

dimensions, exploring in detail the role of fertility, and possibly divorce in the integration process. We exploit rich …, identifying marital selection and fertility choices as fundamental socialization mechanisms. The estimated cultural intolerance of …, as well as fertility and homogamy rates, slow-down the cultural integration of some immigrant ethnic minorities …

failure that may lead to inefficiently low equilibrium fertility and therefore to a need for government intervention. The …) model with fertility choice and altruism, and model ownership by introducing a minimum constraint on transfers from parents … transfer floor is binding, fertility choices are inefficient. We show how this inefficiency relates to dynamic inefficiency in …

We use an extended Barro-Becker model of endogenous fertility, in which parents are heterogeneous in their labor …