Family Labour Supply and Fertility: A Two-Regime Model
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Family labour supply and fertility: a two-regime model.
The central hypothesis of the "new micro-economics of fertility" was examined, i.e., because children are female-time intensive, fertility is inversely related to the mother's wage. A theoretical model of lifetime family labor supply and completed fertility which forms the basis for the subsequent empirical investigation is presented. Empirical estimates of the model are provided using 1971 C...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Canadian Journal of Economics
سال: 1982
ISSN: 0008-4085
DOI: 10.2307/134923