Gary Becker on the Quantity and Quality of Children

Matthias Doepke

No 8610, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: This paper reviews Gary Becker's contributions to the economic analysis of fertility, from his 1960 paper introducing the quantity-quality tradeoff to later work linking the economics of fertility to the theory of economic growth.

Keywords: Gary Becker; fertility; quantity-quality model; demographic transition (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J13 O10 O40 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 13 pages
Date: 2014-11
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Forthcoming - published in: Journal of Demographic Economics, 2015, 81(1), 59-66

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