The Economic Theory of Fertility Decline

Abstract

I. Typical behavior versus critical marginal behavior, 2.—II. Development, occupational shifts, and status shifts, 4.—III. The interstatus-income ratio compression effect, 5.—IV. Status and other IMU goods, 7.—V. Intra-household distributions and commitment claim drift, 11.—VI. On the price inelasticity of status goods, 15.—VII. Interstatus total utility differentials and the utility cost of children, 18.—VIII. On the utility of children, 21.—IX. Combining utility and utility cost relations, 26.