Income and differential fertility: evidence from oil price shocks

This paper examines the effect of national income on the total fertility rate (children born per woman). We estimate the effects on fertility of shocks to national per capita income using plausibly exogenous variations in oil price shock as an instrument for income and using instrumental variable...

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Main Author: Hailemariam, Abebe
Format: Journal Article
Published: Cambridge University Press 2022
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/88446