Public School and Private Tutoring in an Endogenous Fertility Model

Hiroki Tanaka and Masaya Yasuoka
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Hiroki Tanaka: Doshisha University

No 260, Discussion Paper Series from School of Economics, Kwansei Gakuin University

Abstract: We develop a human-capital accumulation model with endogenous fertility to analyze how households jointly determine demand for private tutoring and fertility. It is well established in the prior literature that there exists a trade-off between educational investment in children and the number of children. In our study as well, when public schooling and private tutoring are substitutes, higher-income households engage in greater investment in private tutoring and exhibit lower fertility, a result consistent with previous findings. However, when public schooling and supplementary education are complements, higher-income households exhibit both greater investment in private tutoring and higher fertility, which stands in contrast to earlier studies.

Keywords: Fertility; Human capital accumulation; Private tutoring (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H52 I22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 7 pages
Date: 2023-09, Revised 2025-12
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