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Income Distribution, Non‐convexities and the Fertility–Income Relationship

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ID9724684
AuthorsFrédéric Docquier (0000-0003-3581-6141, University of Liège, corresponding author)
Year2004
Volume71
Issue282
Pages261-273
Publication date2004-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEconomica (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0013-0427 • E-ISSN: 1468-0335
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.0013-0427.2004.00369.x
OpenAlexW2138809575
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited21

This paper presents a model of inequality, income determination and fertility, that is consistent with aggregated stylized facts and individual survey data on fertility and income. It shows that indivisibilities in human capital investments limit the possibility of trade‐off between the quality and the quantity of children. This generates a non‐monotonic relationship between income and fertility at the micro level. On the aggregate, the total fertility rate can increase or decrease with income, depending on the income distribution of the population and on the private cost of education

Demographic economics · Distribution (mathematics) · Economic growth · Economic inequality · Economics · Fertility · Gross income · Human capital · Income distribution · Inequality · Labour economics · Macroeconomics · Passive income · Population · Public economics · Stylized fact · Demography · Economic Growth and Productivity · Economic theories and models · Income, Poverty, and Inequality · Mathematics

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