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. …

undesirable, and where there is imperfect fertility control, leading to involuntary childlessness/parenthood. Using an equivalent … consumption approach in the consumption-fertility space, we first show that the identification of the worst-off individuals is not … robust to how the social evaluator fixes the reference fertility level. Adopting the ex post egalitarian social criterion …

The 20th century witnessed the birth of modern family planning and its effects on the fertility of hundreds of millions …’s economy and society in ways that extend well beyond its fertility rate. …

custodial parents exercise their children's voting rights until they come of age) and the vast literature on formal models with … endogenous fertility that address the problem of fiscal redistribution between young and old cohorts in the presence of an aging … the well being that individuals can expect at birth to achieve during their lifetime. …