… the changes in the data, we provide an overview of the … in modeling fertility that address
the new facts, and we describe the … the career-family conflict central to the new economics of …

… The crucial problem is that fertility fell rather than … the analysis of fertility mainly in the context
of the Malthusian question: what are the links between family choices - in particular, fertility …

… I present a static economic theory of lifetime marital fertility within the context of this new
economic approach to family behavior. The theoretical model is developed under a set of …

… The 1990 and 1991 rates climbed back up close to 2.1, the replacement level (see Figure …
in understanding the economic underpinnings of the fertility rate than we were in the 1970s? …

… The theory dates from the effort in 1957 by Harvey Leibenstein to formalize the turning
point, the process by which fertility declines, in the demographic transition. He explains that: ' …

… In the present paper, the term economic theory of fertility refers to … I think that the application
to fertility problems of the economic theory … First, economics has clarified the appropriate con- …

… I present a static economic theory of lifetime marital fertility within the context of this new
economic approach to family behavior. The theoretical model is developed under a set of …

… Thus, we extend the literature on optimal economic growth to allow for … of fertility and
intergenerational transfers. We use the model to assess the effects of child-rearing costs, the tax …

… the transition path dominates its original increase. Also, since we are unable to determine
the direction of change of the fertility rate over the … (10) that the lower intertemporal price must …

… The only one of these relationships with which I find any difficulty is the inverse relationship
of fertility … I think the results of a generation of fertility research suggest that variations in parity …