Arbeitspapier
Gary Becker on the Quantity and Quality of Children
This paper reviews Gary Becker's contributions to the economic analysis of fertility, from his 1960 paper introducing the quantity-quality tradeoff to later work linking the economics of fertility to the theory of economic growth.
- Language
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                Englisch
 
- Bibliographic citation
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                Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 8610
 
- Classification
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                Wirtschaft
 Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
 Economic Development: General
 Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity: General
 
- Subject
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                Gary Becker
 fertility
 quantity-quality model
 demographic transition
 
- Event
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                Geistige Schöpfung
 
- (who)
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                Doepke, Matthias
 
- Event
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                Veröffentlichung
 
- (who)
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                Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
 
- (where)
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                Bonn
 
- (when)
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                2014
 
- Handle
- Last update
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                        10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Doepke, Matthias
- Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Time of origin
- 2014
 
        
    