Gobbi, Paula - In: Journal of Population Economics 26 (2013) 3, pp. 963-982
choice of zero fertility has not interested economists. Permanent childlessness, in developed countries, can concern up to 30 … % of the women in a cohort. Childlessness rates can be positively related to average fertility for some cohorts of women …. This paper provides an explanation for this using an endogenous fertility model where individuals have different …