agree on wanting a child. Using newly available data on fertility preferences and outcomes, we show that indeed, babies are … bargaining model of fertility choice and match the model to data from a set of European countries with very low fertility rates …. The distribution of the burden of child care between mothers and fathers turns out to be a key determinant of fertility. A …

The economic theory of fertility choice builds predominantly on the unitary model of the household, in which there is a … bear on fertility choice, and we point out promising future directions for this line of research. …

This paper reviews Gary Becker's contributions to the economic analysis of fertility, from his 1960 paper introducing … the quantity-quality tradeoff to later work linking the economics of fertility to the theory of economic growth. …

In this survey, we argue that the economic analysis of fertility has entered a new era. First-generation models of … fertility choice were designed to account for two empirical regularities that, in the past, held both across countries and … across families in a given country: a negative relationship between income and fertility, and another negative relationship …

This paper reviews Gary Becker's contributions to the economic analysis of fertility, from his 1960 paper introducing … the quantity-quality tradeoff to later work linking the economics of fertility to the theory of economic growth. …

The economic theory of fertility choice builds predominantly on the unitary model of the household, in which there is a … bear on fertility choice, and we point out promising future directions for this line of research. …

agree on wanting a child. Using newly available data on fertility preferences and outcomes, we show that indeed, babies are … bargaining model of fertility choice and match the model to data from a set of European countries with very low fertility rates …. The distribution of the burden of child care between mothers and fathers turns out to be a key determinant of fertility. A …

In this survey, we argue that the economic analysis of fertility has entered a new era. First-generation models of … fertility choice were designed to account for two empirical regularities that, in the past, held both across countries and … across families in a given country: a negative relationship between income and fertility, and another negative relationship …

II. We develop a quantitative dynamic general equilibrium model with endogenous fertility and female labor … well as patterns for age-specific laborforce participation and fertility rates that are consistent with U.S. data. …

II. We develop a quantitative dynamic general equilibrium model with endogenous fertility and female labour …, as well as patterns for age-specific labour-force participation and fertility rates that are consistent with U.S data. …