Economic Influences On Birth Rates
- 1 November 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in National Institute Economic Review
- Vol. 126 (126) , 71-92
- https://doi.org/10.1177/002795018812600108
Abstract
The idea that economic developments can affect births is an old one, going back to Malthus'Essay on Populationin the early 19th century. In more recent times, the economic analysis of fertility was resurrected by Becker (1960) and developed by Easterlin (1980), Willis (1973), Becker (1981) and others. This article reports on an application of this economic approach to the analysis of fluctuations in births in Britain during the post-war period, building on previous work by De Cooman, Ermisch and Joshi (1987).Keywords
This publication has 12 references indexed in Scilit:
- Post-War Fertility and Female Labour Force Participation RatesThe Economic Journal, 1988
- Asymptotic Properties of Least Squares Estimators of Cointegrating VectorsEconometrica, 1987
- The Next Birth and the Labour Market: A Dynamic Model of Births in England and WalesPopulation Studies, 1987
- Forecasting and testing in co-integrated systemsJournal of Econometrics, 1987
- Co-Integration and Error Correction: Representation, Estimation, and TestingEconometrica, 1987
- Wage ModelsNational Institute Economic Review, 1987
- Why Are More Women Working in Britain?Journal of Labor Economics, 1985
- Testing Residuals from Least Squares Regression for Being Generated by the Gaussian Random WalkEconometrica, 1983
- Likelihood Ratio Statistics for Autoregressive Time Series with a Unit RootEconometrica, 1981
- A New Approach to the Economic Theory of Fertility BehaviorJournal of Political Economy, 1973