Fertility and Childlessness in the United States
| Autor: | Thomas Baudin, David de la Croix, Paula Eugenia Gobbi |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
| Předmět: |
Economics and Econometrics
Economic growth Opportunity cost media_common.quotation_subject Fertility Reproductive Behavior jel:I20 Margin (finance) Economics Humans Marriage Birth Rate Total factor productivity media_common Poverty Census jel:J13 jel:N32 jel:N31 Family planning Childlessness jel:J16 Educational Status Demographic economics Female Forecasting |
| Zdroj: | The American economic review. 105(6) |
| ISSN: | 0002-8282 |
| Popis: | We develop a theory of fertility, distinguishing its intensive margin from its extensive margin. The deep parameters are identified using facts from the 1990 US Census: (i) fertility of mothers decreases with education; (ii) childlessness exhibits a U-shaped relationship with education; (iii) the relationship between marriage rates and education is hump-shaped for women and increasing for men. We estimate that 2.5 percent of women were childless because of poverty and 8.1 percent because of high opportunity cost of childrearing. Over time, historical trends in total factor productivity and in education led to a U-shaped response in childlessness rates while fertility of mothers decreased. (JEL I20, J13, J16, N31, N32) |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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