Cheap Children and the Persistence of Poverty

By Omer Moav. 2001

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Gender Studies

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Accounting for Fertility Decline During the Transition to Growth (2004, background): “…mortality (Kalemli-Oczan 2002).6 Our emphasis on child labor is shared with Hazan and Berdugo 5Fertility differentials play an important role in Moav (2005), who points to cross-country fertility differences as an explanation for persistent income inequality, and de la Croix and Doepke…”
Reliving the 1950s: the big push, poverty traps, and takeoffs in economic development (2006, neutral): “Galor (2005), Moav (2005) , and Galor and Weil (2000, 1996) present insightful variations of poverty trap models in which a low return to human capital perpetuates a poverty trap with low income, high fertility, and low-human capital.”
Fertility Theories: Can They Explain the Negative Fertility-Income Relationship? (2008, neutral): “…and Weil (1999), Galor and Weil (2000), Greenwood and Seshadri (2002), Hansen and Prescott (2002), Boldrin and Jones (2002), Doepke (2004, 2005), Greenwood, Seshadri, and Vandenbroucke (2005), Moav (2005), Tertilt (2005), Jones and Schoonbroodt (2007b), Murtin (2007) and Bar and Leukhina (2007).”
Human Capital Inequality, Life Expectancy and Economic Growth (2008, neutral): “approach and has been analyzed by Bertola (1993), Alesina and Rodrik (1994) or Persson and Tabellini (1994), among others.”
Inequality and growth in advanced economies: an empirical investigation (2010, background): “…that point out different fertility patterns among individuals with different levels of education also predict that the distribution of education on one side and decisions on human capital investment and fertility on the other are highly related (e.g. De la Croix and Doepke, 2003; Moav, 2005).”
Quantity-Quality and the One Child Policy: The Only-Child Disadvantage in School Enrollment in Rural China. NBER Working Paper No. 14973. (2009, background): “1 economists, beginning with Becker and Lewis (1973) and Becker and Tomes (1976) have also theorized about the negative e¤ects of family size on child quality (Galor and Weil, 2000; Hazan and Berdugo, 2002; Moav, 2005).”
From Stagnation to Growth: Unified Growth Theory (2004, positive): “Gould, Moav and Simhon (2003) suggest that the rise in the demand for human capital increased the demand for educated women who have a comparative advantage in raising quality children, increasing the cost of marriage. Polygamy therefore became less affordable, inducing the transition from polygamy ”
The Demographic Transition and the Emergence of Sustained Economic Growth (2005, background): “…the trait of higher valuation for quality gained the evolutionary advantage, and the Malthusian pressure gradually increased the representation of 13See Galor and Weil (1999), Hazan and Zoabi (2004), Moav (2005) and Soares (2005). individuals whose preferences were biased towards child quality.”
Longevity and Lifetime Labor Supply: Evidence and Implications (2009, neutral): “9Most models which analyze long-run growth assume that human capital is strictly increasing and strictly concave with respect to time invested (see Galor and Weil (2000), Kalemli-Ozcan, Ryder, and Weil (2000), Hazan and Berdugo (2002) and Moav (2005), among others).”