Relative Income and Price of Time: Exploring their effcts on U.S. Fertility and Female Labor Force Participation, 1963-1993

D.J. Macunovich

Department of Economics Working Papers from Department of Economics, Williams College

Abstract: This paper attempts to review and synthesize the literature on the economics of fertility in order to develop a model which combines the "the price of time" and the "relative income" concepts underlying the two most well-known models.

Keywords: FERTILITY; WOMEN; LABOUR MARKET (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J10 J13 J16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 30 pages
Date: 1996
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