| Date: |
2017 |
| Abstract: |
In this article, I study fertility decisions with special emphasis on the timing of births and abortions over the life cycle. Given the policy debate regarding abortion availability and recent evidence of its positive impact on women's outcomes, understanding the fertility process should help guide the discussion. Here, I present a life-cycle model of consumption-savings and fertility decisions in an environment with uninsurable income shocks and imperfect fertility control. My model presents a framework in which both opportunity costs of child rearing and technological restrictions (in the form of contraception effectiveness) have roles shaping lifetime fertility choices. |
| Grants: |
Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad ECO2012-32392
Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación SEV-2011-0075
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| Rights: |
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| Language: |
Anglès |
| Document: |
Article ; recerca ; Versió acceptada per publicar |
| Subject: |
Stochastic fertility ;
Life-cycle model ;
Heterogeneous agents model ;
Savings ;
Birth control |
| Published in: |
International economic review, Vol. 58 Núm. 1 (February 2017) , p. 237-259, ISSN 0020-6598 |
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