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A ROLE FOR CULTURAL TRANSMISSION IN FERTILITY TRANSITIONS
2009
Macroeconomic Dynamics
The paper proposes an economic and cultural mechanism that can predict a fertility transition and its timing. The cultural structure of the population is endogenously determined by a cultural evolution mechanism. The fertility rates reduction in the long run is always the result of an interaction between the cultural and economic structures of the society. Permanent productivity schocks have to distort su¢ ciently the cultural structure of the population to make acceptable modern behaviours (in
doi:10.1017/s1365100509090403
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