Childlessness and Economic Development : A Survey

David de La Croix (1) , Paula E. Gobbi (2) , Thomas Baudin (3)

1 CORE - Department of Economics
2 UCL - Université Catholique de Louvain = Catholic University of Louvain
3 LEM - Lille économie management - UMR 9221

This paper provides an introduction to the analysis of childlessness, first by describing the stylized facts and the relevant literature, and then by proposing a theoretical framework. We show that both poverty-driven childlessness and opportunity-driven childlessness matter and are essential to a thorough understanding of childlessness as a socioeconomic phenomenon.

Domaines: Sciences de l'Homme et Société; Gestion et management

David de La Croix, Paula E. Gobbi, Thomas Baudin. Childlessness and Economic Development : A Survey. Alberto Bucci (éd.); Klaus Prettner (éd.); Alexia Prskawetz (éd.). Human Capital and Economic Growth: The Impact of Health, Education and Demographic Change, Palgrave MacMillan, pp.55-90, 2019, 978-3-030-21599-6. ⟨hal-02615162⟩