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 …

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 …

In the past few years, there has been substantial progress in the application of the economic theory of household … 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 …