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...
| Published in: | American Economist Vol. 21; no. 2 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Fall77
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