A THEORY OF THE CROSS-SECTIONAL FERTILITY DIFFERENTIAL: JOB HETEROGENEITY APPROACH

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Yasui, Daishin
• 署名单位: Kobe University
• 刊物名称: INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0020-6598
• DOI: 10.1111/iere.12217
• 发表日期: 2017
• 页码: 287-306
• 关键词: technical change; population; GROWTH; longevity; MODEL; debt

摘要

This article presents a theory of the cross-sectional fertility differential, which produces the negative wage-fertility relationship based on job heterogeneity. Although evidence suggests the importance of job heterogeneity in the labor market, it has largely been ignored in theories of fertility choice. I show that a theory incorporating job heterogeneity requires only standard conditions on preferences to generate the negative wage-fertility relationship, and the negative relationship derived from the model is robust to changes in economic environments (e.g., public policy and technology). Furthermore, the theory reconciles the negative cross-sectional wage-fertility relationship with various time-series variations in aggregate fertility.