An analysis of reproductive behaviour in Canada: results from an intertemporal optimizing model |
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Authors: | Mcintosh J |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Economics, Concordia University, 1455 de Maisonneuve Boulevard West, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3G 1M8 (Tel.: (514) 848–3910; e-mail: jamesm@vaxz.concordia.ca), CA |
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Abstract: | Results based on a sample of Canadian households challenge the findings of most studies which show significant negative effects
of schooling on the fertility of women under the age of 45. This is due to the application of methods to an optimization model
which distinguish between those households which have completed their reproductive behaviour from those which have not. Completion
status and the desired number of children are used to infer characteristics of the optimal programme which are then employed
to derive a likelihood function. Traditional demographic methods have so far not fully utilized the distinction between incomplete
and completed households in sample surveys. These methods also lead to the conclusion that completed fertility had increased
from its all time low in the nineteen seventies.
Received: 9 July 1997/Accepted: 6 June 1998 |
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Keywords: | JEL classification: C24 C25 J13 |
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