Social capital, human capital and fertility

Arbeitspapier

We develop an overlapping generations model to study how the interplay between social and human capital affects fertility. In a framework where families face a trade-off between the quantity and quality of children, we incorporate the assumption that social capital plays a key role in the accumulation of human capital. We show how the erosion of social capital can trigger a chain of reactions leading households to base their childbearing decisions on quantity, instead of quality, resulting in higher fertility.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: EERI Research Paper Series ; No. 04/2018

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth ; Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification
• Subject: fertility ; quantity-quality trade-off ; human capital ; education ; social capital ; trust

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Coppier, Raffaella ; Sabatini, Fabio ; Sodini, Mauro
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Economics and Econometrics Research Institute (EERI)
• (where): Brussels
• (when): 2018

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/179419
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET