Modeling household fertility decisions with generalized Poisson regression

Weiren Wang () and Felix Famoye
Additional contact information
Weiren Wang: Department of Economics, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506-0034, USA
Felix Famoye: Department of Mathematics, Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, MI 48859, USA

Journal of Population Economics, 1997, vol. 10, issue 3, 273-283

Abstract: This paper models household fertility decisions by using a generalized Poisson regression model. Since the fertility data used in the paper exhibit under-dispersion, the generalized Poisson regression model has statistical advantages over both standard Poisson and negative binomial regression models, and is suitable for analysis of count data that exhibit either over-dispersion or under-dispersion. The model is estimated by the method of maximum likelihood. Approximate tests for the dispersion and goodness-of-fit measures for comparing alternative models are discussed. Based on observations from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics of 1989 interviewing year, the empirical results support the fertility hypothesis of Becker and Lewis (1973).

Keywords: Fertility; decision; ·; generalized; Poisson; model; ·; dispersion; ·; goodness-of-fit (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C25 J13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1997
Note: Received January 7, 1997 /Accepted April 3, 1997
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (50)

Downloads: (external link)
http://link.springer.de/link/service/journals/00148/papers/7010003/70100273.pdf (application/pdf)
http://link.springer.de/link/service/journals/0014 ... 10003/70100273.ps.gz (application/postscript)
Access to the full text of the articles in this series is restricted

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:jopoec:v:10:y:1997:i:3:p:273-283

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.springer. ... tion/journal/148/PS2

Access Statistics for this article

Journal of Population Economics is currently edited by K.F. Zimmermann

More articles in Journal of Population Economics from Springer, European Society for Population Economics Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().