Title of article :
Occupational choice, educational attainment, and fertility
Author/Authors :
Masako Kimura، نويسنده , , Daishin Yasui، نويسنده ,
Issue Information :
روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2007
Abstract :
This paper develops an overlapping generations model that incorporates occupational (educational) choices and fertility decisions. We explain the fertility decline as the result of the popularization of higher education in association with capital accumulation. This model also exhibits the possibility of multiple equilibria.
Keywords :
Occupational choice , Fertility , Overlapping generations model , Capital-skill complementarity
Journal title :
Economics Letters
Journal title :
Economics Letters