TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kenny,Lawrence W.
ED  - National Bureau of Economic Research.
TI  - Explaining Movements in Completed Fertility Across Cohorts
T2  - NBER working paper series
PY  - 1978///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - National Bureau of Economic Research
N1  - July 1978; Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
N2  - A life cycle model of fertility based on the quantity-quality model of fertility successfully explains changes in completed fertility in a period in which completed fertility first fell and then rose. This model furthermore accurately predicts the timing and level of the subsequent peak in completed fertility. Regressions based on Easterlin's relative economic status theory of fertility are less successful in predicting fertility over a fifteen year period than regressions based on the quantity-quality model. Upon investigation, much of the increase in completed fertility associated with the baby boom appears to be primarily attributable to sporadic wage growth
UR  - https://www.nber.org/papers/w0270
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w0270
ER  -