On the nexus of fertility and debt

Lixin Sun

Economics Letters, 2019, vol. 181, issue C, 120-126

Abstract: This paper examines the effects of debt on fertility with panel data. The baseline model confirms that both public and non-financial private debt significantly mitigate fertility, whereas the dynamic panel suggests that only the effects of private debt are significant.

Keywords: Fertility rate; Public debt; Non-financial private debt; Dynamic panel GMM analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E62 H63 J13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2019.05.004

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