Income distribution and macroeconomics revisited: The role of fertility adjustment

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This paper develops a theory in which households prepare for future education by adjusting the number of children they intend to raise. Income inequality lowers output per worker only if the inequality is attributed in some part to unexpected disturbances after childbirth.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: ISER Discussion Paper ; No. 758

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Household Behavior: General ; Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth ; Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity ; Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
• Subject: Fertility ; Lock-in effect ; Inequality ; Education ; Fertilität ; Haushaltseinkommen ; Soziale Ungleichheit ; Einkommensverteilung ; Familienplanung ; Privater Haushalt ; Kleine offene Volkswirtschaft ; Overlapping Generations ; Theorie

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Nakagawa, Masao ; Sugimoto, Yoshiaki
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Osaka University, Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER)
• (where): Osaka
• (when): 2009

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/92564
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