Childlessness and Economic Development: A Survey

Thomas Baudin, David de la Croix and Paula Gobbi

No 2019001, LIDAM Discussion Papers IRES from Université catholique de Louvain, Institut de Recherches Economiques et Sociales (IRES)

Abstract: This paper provides an introduction to the analysis of childlessness, first by describing the stylized facts and the relevant literature, and then by proposing a theoretical framework. We show that both poverty-driven childlessness and opportunity-driven childlessness matter and are essential to a thorough understanding of childlessness as a socioeconomic phenomenon.

Keywords: Childlessness; fertility; education; marriage; children; sterility; economic development; poverty-driven childlessness; opportunity-driven childlessness; female empowerment; childcare; Malthusian economy; educational homogamy; reproductive health; demographic economics; developed countries; developing countries; historical childlessness; quantity and quality of children; inequality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J11 O11 O40 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019-01-03
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Working Paper: Childlessness and Economic Development: a Survey (2019)
Working Paper: Childlessness and Economic Development: A Survey (2019)
Working Paper: Childlessness and Economic Development: A Survey (2019)
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