THE EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FROM THE FERTILITY DEMAND FUNCTIONS: A REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE.

Examines the microeconomic theories of human fertility. Explanation of the secular decline in fertility; Influence of price and income elasticities on fertility principles; Sign and magnitude of coefficients at the micro and aggregate levels; Indications of negative relationship between fertility a...

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Published in:American Economist Vol. 21; no. 2
Main Author: Fulop, Marcel
Format: Article
Published: Sage Publications Inc. Fall77
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