SOCIAL CAPITAL, HUMAN CAPITAL, AND FERTILITY

Raffaella Coppier, Fabio Sabatini and Mauro Sodini

Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2021, vol. 25, issue 3, 632-650

Abstract: We develop an overlapping generations model to study how the interplay between social and human capital affects fertility. In a framework where families face a trade-off between the quantity and quality of children, we incorporate the assumption that social capital plays a key role in the accumulation of human capital. We show how the erosion of social capital can trigger a chain of reactions leading households to base their childbearing decisions on quantity, instead of quality, resulting in higher fertility.

Date: 2021
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