Tasiran, A.C. 　著

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Introduction. Women's wage rates, men's income and fertility. Recenttrends in Sweden and the United States. Research method: event historyanalysis. Policy concerns related to women's wages and men's income andfertility. Outline of this volume. Review of Fertility Models. Introduction.Economic models. Summary. Empirical Studies. Introduction. Evidence frommacro studies - aggregate time-series data. Evidence from micro studies -surveys. Summary. Econometric Methodology. Duration analysis. Acontinuous-time birth-process model as a hazard rate model. Unobservedheterogeneity and non-parametric maximum-likelihood estimator (NPMLE).Time-varying variables and endogeneity. The problems of weighting andincomplete spell information in duration analysis. Model-selection criteria.Chi-square goodness-of-fit test. Summary. Empirical Findings from Sweden.Introduction. A hazard rate model for births without heterogeneity. The needof age- and gender-specific wage and the income series and Heckman-Walkerdataset. An improved macro wage and income series from official statistics.Results from the Swedish fertility survey data. Aggregate macro data versusmicro data with measurement errors. Results from HUS-panel data. Summary.Empirical Findings from the United States. Introduction. Results from thePSID 1985-1988 birth-history file for white and non-white women. Results fromthe PSID 1985-1988 ego-alter file by birth cohorts. Summary. Conclusions.Limitations of the study. Major findings and implications. Policy-relatedissues. Future research. Appendices. References. Subject Index.