Population and Family Economics

Enseignants

Mariani Fabio;

Langue
d'enseignement

Anglais

Contenu

Introduction.
0.1: Economics and demography: why the family matters
0.2: Key facts
Part 1.Household behavior and decision making.
1.1: Preferences and household production
1.2: The unitary model
1.3: Non-cooperative models
1.4: The cooperative model
Part 2.The marriage market: household formation and dissolution.
2.1: Matching on the marriage market (who marries whom)
       2.1.1 Non-transferrable utility: the Gale-Shapley equilibrium
       2.1.2 Transferrable utility: the Becker-Shapley-Shubik equilibrium
       2.1.3 Search on the marriage market
2.2: Sharing the surplus: equilibrium transfers, etc.
2.3: Pre-marital investment
Part 3.Household decisions and implications for growth: endogenous fertility.
3.1: Children: the quality-quantity trade-off
3.2: Endogenous fertility: implications for growth and inequality
3.3: The role of fertility in unified growth theories

Bibliographie

No book is strictly required. Some material, however, will be taken from:
'        Browning, M., P.-A. Chiappori and Y. Weiss (2014): Economics of the Family, Cambridge University Press.
'        De la Croix, D.  (2013): Fertility, Education, Growth, and Sustainability, Cambridge University Press.
Further references (mostly to selected research papers) will be provided throughout the course.

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