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Economic Influences On Birth Rates

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 March 2020

John Ermisch
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The idea that economic developments can affect births is an old one, going back to Malthus' Essay on Population in the early 19th century. In more recent times, the economic analysis of fertility was resurrected by Becker (1960) and developed by Easterlin (1980), Willis (1973), Becker (1981) and others. This article reports on an application of this economic approach to the analysis of fluctuations in births in Britain during the post-war period, building on previous work by De Cooman, Ermisch and Joshi (1987).

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National Institute Economic Review , Volume 126 , November 1988 , pp. 71 - 92
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Copyright © 1988 National Institute of Economic and Social Research

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