addition to the intra-household network, inter-house networks also play a role in couple's decisions with regard to fertility …Since its first appearance in the late 1950s, Neoclassical economic theory of fertility, especially as exemplified by … Gary Becker's model of household production function that assumed a unitary utility function of the household, has become …

children’s health. The main result of this paper is that the correlation between economic growth and fertility rates runs in … ; fertility rates …