Cheap Children and the Persistence of Poverty
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 9703499 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Omer Moav (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, autor de correspondencia) |
| Año | 2005 |
| Volumen | 115 |
| Número | 500 |
| Páginas | 88-110 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2005-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | Sí |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | The Economic Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 0013-0133 • E-ISSN: 1468-0297 |
| Editorial | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2004.00961.x |
| OpenAlex | W3124226822 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citas recibidas | 40 |
| Referencias citadas | 60 |
This paper develops a theory of fertility that offers an explanation for the persistence of poverty within and across countries. If educated individuals have a comparative advantage in raising educated children then parental fertility choice is shown to give rise to a poverty trap, in which the poor choose high fertility rates with low investment in child quality. Moreover, the impact of child quality choice on economic performance is amplified by the diluting effect of higher fertility on physical capital accumulation. The theory proposes insights regarding the effects of inequality, globalisation and life expectancy on economic growth and demographic transitions. Copyright 2005 Royal Economic Society
Demographic economics · Economic growth · Economics · Fertility · Human capital · Investment (military · Labour economics · Microeconomics · Overlapping generations model · Persistence (discontinuity · Population · Poverty · Production (economics · Productivity · Quality (philosophy · Demography · Economic Growth and Productivity · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
Human Capital Formation, Life Expectancy, and the Process of Development
The trade-off between fertility and education
Chapter 4 From Stagnation to Growth
Development, fertility and childbearing age
Impact of PM2.5 on Second Birth Intentions of China’s Floating Population in a Low Fertility Context
Gendered fertility intentions and child schooling
Migration, child education, human capital accumulation, and a brain dilution tax
Only-child matching penalty in the marriage market
Child labour and inequality
Inequality and growth in advanced economies
Poverty dynamics and graduation from conditional cash transfers
Fertility intentions of having a second child among the floating population in China
Differential fertility and intergenerational mobility under private versus public education
Under- and over-investment in education
Land tenure, population, and long-run growth
Backslanted X” fertility dynamics and macroeconomics
Child mortality, fertility, and human capital accumulation
Life expectancy and schooling
Free education, fertility and human capital accumulation
Geography, health, and the pace of demo-economic development
The brain drain and the world distribution of income
Multiple Experiments for the Causal Link between the Quantity and Quality of Children
Long-Term Determinants of the Demographic Transition, 1870–2000
Chronic Disease Burden and the Interaction of Education, Fertility, and Growth
Abortion and Human Capital Accumulation
Revisiting the link between electrification and fertility
Foreign Aid, Fertility and Human Capital Accumulation
Humanitarian Aid, Fertility and Economic Growth
Saving Rates and Poverty
Human Capital Inequality, Life Expectancy and Economic Growth
Do Highly Educated Women Choose Smaller Families
Changing the Cost of Children and Fertility
Intergenerational Transfers and the Fertility–Income Relationship
Fertility and Modernity
Contraception and the Demographic Transition
Infant Health, Women's Fertility, and Rural Electrification in the United States, 1930-1960
Population Control Policies and Fertility Convergence
Comparison of second-child fertility intentions between local and migrant women in urban China
Does fertility decrease household consumption
Who and What You Know
Technological Revolutions
Productivity Differences
Natural Selection and the Origin of Economic Growth
Why Do New Technologies Complement Skills? Directed Technical Change and Wage Inequality
Malthus to Solow
Inequality and Growth
Empirics for Growth and Distribution
Income Distribution and Macroeconomics
Equity and Efficiency in Human Capital Investment
Ability-Biased Technological Transition, Wage Inequality, and Economic Growth
Effects of Schooling on Fertility, Labor Supply, and Investments in Children, with Evidence from Brazil
Testing the Quantity-Quality Fertility Model
A theory of persistent income inequality
How Large Are Human-Capital Externalities? Evidence from Compulsory Schooling Laws
Estimating the social return to higher education
Population Growth and Technological Change
Population, Technology, and Growth
Appropriate Technology and Growth
Economic Growth in a Cross Section of Countries
Growth, income distribution, and democracy
Inequality and Growth
Fertility Choice in a Model of Economic Growth
Unequal Societies
Does Increasing Women's Schooling Raise the Schooling of the Next Generation
The Effects of Family Characteristics on the Return to Education
Be fruitful or multiply
A simple model of inequality, occupational choice, and development
Inequality and growth
Explaining Changes in Married Mothers’ Employment over Time
Family size and children’s education in Thailand
Aggregate Population and Economic Growth Correlations
The Trade-off between Child Quantity and Quality
Does School Quality Matter? Returns to Education and the Characteristics of Public Schools in the United States
Occupational Choice and the Process of Development
Human Capital, Fertility, and Economic Growth
On the Interaction between the Quantity and Quality of Children
Women's Schooling, Home Teaching, and Economic Growth
Intergenerational Mobility and the Process of Development
Child Labour, Fertility, and Economic Growth
Convergence? Inferences from Theoretical Models
On The Convergence and Divergence of Growth Rates
Returns to investment in education
| Obras citantes distintas | 40 |
|---|---|
| Citas por año | 1,9 |
| Intervalo de citas | 2005 - 2026 (22) |
| Velocidad de citación | current |
| Altamente citado | No |
| Tipos de cita | Neutras: 40 |