Testing the quantity-quality model of fertility: Estimation using unrestricted family size models

Quantitative Economics

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 157-192

  Mogstad, Magne ^a,b   Wiswall, Matthew ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b STATISTICS NORWAY   (Norway)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Birth order; Family size; Instrumental variables; Nonlinearity; Quantity quality model of fertility

Indexed keywords

EID: 84962045056     PISSN: 17597323     EISSN: 17597331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3982/QE322     Document Type: Article

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