Fertility subsidies can have ambiguous effects on birth timing
| dc.contributor.author | Naidoo, Jesse | |
| dc.contributor.email | jesse.naidoo@up.ac.za | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-21T08:55:08Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2023-08 | |
| dc.description | DATA AVAILABILITY : No data was used for the research described in the article. | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | Pronatalist subsidies often vary with birth order (parity). I study the effect of such subsidies on birth timing in a life-cycle model of fertility choice. In the model, births permanently reduce the rate of human capital accumulation. While subsidies to marginal births always accelerate the time to next birth, subsidies to higher-order births can extend those times for women at low parities. The result is not driven by income effects, quantity-quality substitution, biological constraints, or uncertainty. Instead, it is that slower anticipated earnings growth in the future raises the marginal value of human capital in the present. | en_US |
| dc.description.department | Economics | en_US |
| dc.description.embargo | 2025-06-17 | |
| dc.description.librarian | hj2023 | en_US |
| dc.description.sdg | SDG-08:Decent work and economic growth | en_US |
| dc.description.uri | http://www.elsevier.com/locate/ecolet | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Naidoo. J. 2023, 'Fertility subsidies can have ambiguous effects on birth timing', Economics Letters, vol. 229, art. 111215, pp. 1-4, doi : 10.1016/j.econlet.2023.111215. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0165-1765 (print) | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1873-7374 (online) | |
| dc.identifier.other | 10.1016/j.econlet.2023.111215 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/93375 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Elsevier | en_US |
| dc.rights | © 2023 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Notice : this is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Economics Letters. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. A definitive version was subsequently published in Economics Letters, vol. 229, art. 111215, pp. 1-4, doi : 10.1016/j.econlet.2023.111215. | en_US |
| dc.subject | Fertility | en_US |
| dc.subject | Life-cycle | en_US |
| dc.subject | Birth spacing | en_US |
| dc.subject | Human capital | en_US |
| dc.subject | SDG-08: Decent work and economic growth | en_US |
| dc.title | Fertility subsidies can have ambiguous effects on birth timing | en_US |
| dc.type | Postprint Article | en_US |