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.
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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
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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
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