On the drivers of the fertility rebound

Georgios Mavropoulos and Theodore Panagiotidis
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Georgios Mavropoulos: Department of Economics, University of Macedonia

Economic Change and Restructuring, 2021, vol. 54, issue 3, No 10, 845 pages

Abstract: Abstract This paper investigates empirically the fertility rebound in low- and high-income OECD countries for the period 1970 to 2016. The focus is on the turning points of the rebound for the two country groups. We estimate the turning points in terms of GDP per capita, labour productivity, and female labour force participation. Results suggest that the rebound, (1) is statistically significant for low- and high-income OECD countries in terms of GDP per capita and labour productivity, (2) is present for female labour force participation mostly for the higher income country group and, (3) differences in the turning points are minimized for the two country groups when labour productivity is considered. Labour productivity emerges as the most important economic driver for the fertility rebound.

Keywords: Fertility rebound; Economic development; Labour productivity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J11 J13 J21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/s10644-020-09297-2

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