Topic: Fertility
Quotes
Oded Galor & David Weil, “The Gender Gap, Fertility, and Growth” (1996)
- If all childrearing is done by women, an increase in men’s wages will have such a pure income effect. Increases in women’s wages raise both household income and the price of children, and so have offsetting income and substitution effects on the demand for children.#
- Higher wages for women raise the cost of children relatively more than they raise household income, and lead to a reduction in the number of children that couples choose to have#
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