Opportunity Costs of Having a Child, Finance Constraints and Fertility

Gilbert Cette, Nicolas Dromel and Dominique Méda (dominique.meda@dauphine.psl.eu)
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Dominique Méda: CEE - Centre d'études de l'emploi - M.E.N.E.S.R. - Ministère de l'Education nationale, de l’Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche - Ministère du Travail, de l'Emploi et de la Santé

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Abstract: Economic theory often assumes that the opportunity costs of having a child and financial constraints have a simultaneous but opposite influence on fertility. This empirical study aims to test the concomitance of these effects using the answers to an original survey carried out in 2003 amongst nearly 1000 French employees, giving information about the impact of their working schedule on the number of children they intend to have. The statistical analysis, based on a 'ceteris paribus' approach using Logit estimates, strongly confirms the simultaneous presence of these two explanatory dimensions.

Keywords: Fertility determinants; Work-life balance; Finance constraints (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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Published in Applied Economics Letters, 2007, 14, pp.239-244. ⟨10.1080/13504850500425535⟩

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DOI: 10.1080/13504850500425535

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