Arbeitspapier
Who Takes Care of the Children? The quantity-quality model revisited
We study the Becker and Lewis (1973) quantityquality model of children adding an explicit child care time constraint for parents. They can purchase day care or take care of the children themselves. Our results are: (i) If there is a combination of purchased and own care, the effect of income on fertility is ambiguous, even if quantity of children is a normal good in the standard sense. This is the Becker and Lewis (1973) result. (ii) If, however, there only is purchased care, the income effect on fertility is positive when quantity is a normal good. (iii) If, on the other hand, there only is own care, there is a different kind of quantityquality tradeoff. The income effect on fertility is positive if quantity is a closer complement than quality to the consumption of goods.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Working Paper ; No. 1998:23
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Household Behavior: General
Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
- Thema
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fertility
child care
time constraint
quantity-quality trade-off
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Lundholm, Michael
Ohlsson, Henry
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Uppsala University, Department of Economics
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Uppsala
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2000
- Handle
- URN
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urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-2436
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Lundholm, Michael
- Ohlsson, Henry
- Uppsala University, Department of Economics
Entstanden
- 2000
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