Gary Becker on the Quantity and Quality of Children

This paper reviews Gary Becker's contributions to the economic analysis of fertility, from his 1960 paper introducing the quantity-quality tradeoff to later work linking the economics of fertility to the theory of economic growth.

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Year of publication:	2014-11
Authors:	Doepke, Matthias
Institutions:	Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Subject:	Gary Becker \| fertility \| quantity-quality model \| demographic transition

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	IZA Discussion Papers.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	forthcoming in: Journal of Demographic Economics Number 8610 13 pages
Classification:	J13 - Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth ; O10 - Economic Development. General ; O40 - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity. General
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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