Michael Bar, Moshe Hazan, Oksana Leukhina, David Weiss, Hosny Zoabi
{"title":"Why did rich families increase their fertility? Inequality and marketization of child care","authors":"Michael Bar, Moshe Hazan, Oksana Leukhina, David Weiss, Hosny Zoabi","doi":"10.20955/wp.2018.022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20955/wp.2018.022","url":null,"abstract":"A negative relationship between income and fertility has persisted for so long that its existence is often taken for granted. One economic theory builds on this relationship and argues that rising inequality leads to greater differential fertility between rich and poor. We show that the relationship between income and fertility has flattened between 1980 and 2010 in the US, a time of increasing inequality, as high income families increased their fertility. These facts challenge the standard theory. We propose that marketization of parental time costs can explain the changing relationship between income and fertility. We show this result both theoretically and quantitatively, after disciplining the model on US data. We explore implications of changing differential fertility for aggregate human capital. Additionally, policies, such as the minimum wage, that affect the cost of marketization, have a negative effect on the fertility and labor supply of high income women. We end by discussing the insights of this theory to the economics of marital sorting.","PeriodicalId":48110,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic Growth","volume":"30 1","pages":"427-463"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2018-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84412514","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Agricultural productivity and economic development: the contribution of clover to structural transformation in Denmark","authors":"Torben Dall Schmidt, P. S. Jensen, Amber Naz","doi":"10.1007/s10887-018-9159-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10887-018-9159-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48110,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic Growth","volume":"12 1","pages":"387 - 426"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2018-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79074875","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"High-school genetic diversity and later-life student outcomes: micro-level evidence from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study","authors":"C. J. Cook, Jason M. Fletcher","doi":"10.1007/s10887-018-9157-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10887-018-9157-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48110,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic Growth","volume":"2 1","pages":"307 - 339"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2018-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78152428","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Population relatedness and cross-country idea flows: evidence from book translations","authors":"A. Dickens","doi":"10.1007/s10887-018-9158-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10887-018-9158-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48110,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic Growth","volume":"75 1","pages":"367 - 386"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2018-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86393266","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The economics of missionary expansion: evidence from Africa and implications for development","authors":"Remi Jedwab, Felix Meier zu Selhausen, A. Moradi","doi":"10.1007/s10887-022-09202-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10887-022-09202-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48110,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic Growth","volume":"18 1","pages":"149 - 192"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2018-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81516601","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Berg, J. Ostry, Charalambos G. Tsangarides, Y. Yakhshilikov
{"title":"Redistribution, inequality, and growth: new evidence","authors":"A. Berg, J. Ostry, Charalambos G. Tsangarides, Y. Yakhshilikov","doi":"10.1007/s10887-017-9150-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10887-017-9150-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48110,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic Growth","volume":"9 1","pages":"259 - 305"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2018-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76361800","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fascistville: Mussolini’s new towns and the persistence of neo-fascism","authors":"Mario F. Carillo","doi":"10.1007/s10887-022-09211-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10887-022-09211-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48110,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic Growth","volume":"117 1","pages":"527 - 567"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2018-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82427724","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Inequality and economic growth: the role of initial income","authors":"M. Brueckner, D. Lederman","doi":"10.1007/s10887-018-9156-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10887-018-9156-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48110,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic Growth","volume":"7 1","pages":"341 - 366"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2018-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73452801","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}