Focusing just on the fertility aspects of the Easterlin hypothesis, this paper offers a critical assessment - rather … than just a selective citation - of the extensive fertility literature generated by Easterlin, and a complete inventory of … fertility, but is less clear regarding the source(s) of differences in material aspirations, and suggests that the observed …

Effects of sex preference on investments in children`s human capital, bequests and fertility are studied, with and …

In this paper we look at a panel of OECD aggregate fertility and labor market data between 1970 and 1995 and we report … some striking recent developments. Total Fertility Rates (TFR) were falling and Female Participation Rates (FPR) were … framework of standard neoclassical models of fertility and labor supply adapted to macro data, as in Butz and Ward (1979). …

A model of fertility choice is studied in which the utility of parents depends on how much they consume, on how many … more limited sense than in the much discussed dynastic fertility model presented by Becker and Barro (1988). The concept of … the dynamic behavior of fertility are strikingly similar in both models. JEL classification: J13, J11, D90. …

We review existing approaches to the specification and estimation of dynamic microeconomic models of fertility. Dynamic … fertility models explain the evolution of fertility variates over the life-cycle as the solution to a dynamic programming model … models of lifetime fertility. JEL classification: J13, C41, C61 …

This paper presents a dynamic model of fertility decisions in which children serve as an incomplete insurance good. The … number of children. It contributes to the understanding of the negative relation between fertility and education, shows why … parents may demand children even if the return is negative, and explains why fertility might rise with increasing income when …

For modeling complete female fertility we propose a zero-and-two-inflated count data model, which accounts for a … data on complete fertilities for a sample of Swedish women. The preferred specification for Swedish fertility data is the …

. The emphasis on women`s employment as a determinant of low fertility has to be supplemented by an examination of the …

This paper examines the interaction between decisions on divorce and fertility. The analysis generates two major … implications. Firstly, it complements the existing literature on endogenous fertility to explain why population growth and economic … development leads to a simultaneous increase in divorce rates and decrease in fertility rates. …

This paper considers the implications of the financing of government services to children when fertility decisions are … biased away from the socially preferred result. The bias results in higher fertility rates and lower economic growth rates …