Fertility Theories:  Can They Explain the Negative Fertility-Income Relationship?

Jones, Larry Eugene; Schoonbroodt, Alice; Tertilt, Michèle

doi:10.3386/w14266

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“…There is also abundant evidence that women with more education have fewer children (Jones et al, 2008). Having fewer children is associated with higher life satisfaction.…”

Section: Non-monetary Returns Outside Of the Labor Forcementioning

confidence: 99%

Does Higher Education Increase Hedonic and Eudaimonic Happiness?

Nikolaev

2016

J Happiness Stud

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An increasing number of studies suggest that the relationship between higher education and subjective well-being (SWB) is either insignificant or negative. Most of these studies, however, use life satisfaction as a proxy for SWB. In this study, using longitudinal data from the Household Income and Labor Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey, I examine the link between higher education and three different measures of subjective well-being: life satisfaction and its different sub-domains (evaluative), positive and negative affect (hedonic), and engagement and purpose (eudaimonic). Three substantial results emerge: (1) people with higher education are more likely to report higher levels of eudaimonic and hedonic SWB, i.e., they view their lives as more meaningful and experience more positive emotions and less negative ones; (2) people with higher education are satisfied with most life domains (financial, employment opportunities, neighborhood, local community, children at home) but they report lower satisfaction with the amount of free time they have; (3) the positive effect of higher education is increasing, but at a decreasing rate; the SWB gains from obtaining a graduate degree are much lower (on the margin) compared to getting a college degree.

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“…There is also abundant evidence that women with more education have fewer children (Jones et al, 2008). Having fewer children is associated with higher life satisfaction.…”

Section: Non-monetary Returns Outside Of the Labor Forcementioning

confidence: 99%

Does Higher Education Increase Hedonic and Eudaimonic Happiness?

Nikolaev

2016

J Happiness Stud

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“…For uncensored durations, the lower and upper bounds are partnership dissolution should be endogenous as well. Even education can be endogenous, since preferences for children, which were shaped during socialization, might affect educational decisions (Baizan and MartinGarcia 2006;Jones et al 2008). In this paper, we do not address these issues and we assume education and partnership formation to be exogenous.…”

Section: Variablesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This finding contradicts the economic theory of fertility, which argues that both quantum and tempo fertility is negatively related to education. The negative quantum effect arises because the shadow price of raising (high-quality) children is relatively high for educated women (Becker and Lewis 1973;Jones, Schoonbroodt, and Tertilt 2008). The negative tempo effect is due to the fact that wages rise with experience and postponement of childbearing minimizes the lifetime opportunity costs of career interruption (Mincer and Polachek 1974;Happel, Hill, and Low 1984;Montgomery and Trussel 1986;Taniguchi 1999).…”

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The effect of education on second births in Hungary

Bartus¹,

Murinkó²,

Szalma³

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DemRes

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“…Papers on the baby boom include Albanesi and Olivetti (2009), Greenwood, Seshadri, and Vandenbroucke (2005), and Doepke, Hazan, and Maoz (2007). This literature has grown greatly in recent years; see Jones, Schoonbroodt, and Tertilt (2011) for a survey.…”

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Families as roommates: Changes in U.S. household size from 1850 to 2000

Salcedo

Schoellman

Tertilt

2012

Quantitative Economics

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Living arrangements have changed enormously over the last two centuries. While the average American today lives in a household of only three people, in 1850 household size was twice that figure. Furthermore, both the number of children and the number of adults in a household have fallen dramatically. We develop a simple theory of household size where living with others is beneficial solely because the costs of household public goods can be shared. In other words, we abstract from intrafamily relations and focus on households as collections of roommates. The model's mechanism is that rising income leads to a falling expenditure share on household public goods, which endogenously makes household formation less beneficial and privacy more attractive. To assess the magnitude of this mechanism, we first calibrate the model to match the relationship between household size, consumption patterns, and income in the cross section at the end of the 20th century. We then project the model back to 1850 by changing income. We find that our proposed mechanism can account for 37 percent of the decline in the number of adults in a household between 1850 and 2000, and for 16 percent of the decline in the number of children.

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Fertility Theories: Can They Explain the Negative Fertility-Income Relationship?

Cited by 142 publications

References 98 publications

Does Higher Education Increase Hedonic and Eudaimonic Happiness?

Does Higher Education Increase Hedonic and Eudaimonic Happiness?

The effect of education on second births in Hungary

Families as roommates: Changes in U.S. household size from 1850 to 2000

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