Children are costly, but raising them may pay
Open Access
- 24 January 2014
- journal article
- Published by Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Demographic Research
- Vol. 30, 253-276
Abstract
This article provides a non-technical introduction to analyses of fertility which are based on a rational-choice paradigm and which acknowledge that raising children may have a strong impact on the well-being of parents that can be described in terms of coKeywords
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