Fertility Theories: Can They Explain the Negative Fertility-Income Relationship?

Larry E. Jones, Alice Schoonbroodt & Michèle Tertilt
Published Date
Copyright 2011
ISBN 0-226-75472-3
Demography and the Economy
Book: Demography and the Economy
Book editor: John B. Shoven
PUBLISHER: University of Chicago Press
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Fertility Theories: Can They Explain the Negative Fertility-Income Relationship?
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Author(s): Larry E. Jones, Alice Schoonbroodt & Michèle Tertilt
In this chapter we revisit the relationship between income and fertility. There is overwhelming empirical evidence...

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