The gender gap, fertility, and growth
The gender gap, fertility, and growth
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DOI：
10.3386/w4550
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发表时间：
1996-06-01
影响因子：
10.7
通讯作者：
Weil, DN
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文献类型：
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作者：
Galor, O;Weil, DN
本文研究了一种连接生育力和生长的新机制。该模型由三个组成部分组成：首先，工人人均资本的增加提高了女性的相对工资，因为资本对女性劳动力投入的补充性比对男性劳动力投入的补充性更强。其次，提高女性相对工资会导致生育成本高于家庭收入，从而降低生育率。第三，较低的生育率影响了每个工人的资本水平。这种正反馈循环会产生人口结构转变。生育率迅速下降，同时产出加速增长。
This paper examines a novel mechanism linking fertility and growth. There are three components to the model: first, increases in capital per worker raise women's relative wages, since capital is more complementary to women's labor input than to men's. Second, increasing women's relative wages reduces fertility by raising the cost of children more than household income. And third, lower fertility mises the level of capital per worker. This positive feedback loop generates a demographic transition. a rapid decline in fertility accompanied by accelerated output growth.