Becker's Theory of Fertility

Introduction The birthrate in the United States has declined by 2% in 2008. This means that the birth rate in the United States is somewhat infertile treatment of exchange level per child woman. Some people expressed concern about the possibility of a declining population, while others celebrated considerably reducing teens pregnancy. Preliminary analysis shows that slowing economic growth is the cause of declining birthrate. It seems that depression and low fertility rate are correlated, but this is not a causal relationship.

Review of the literature between education and infertility, we must emphasize the contribution of research done by Becker. Becker (1960), Becker and Lewis (1973) analyzed the "child's quality reproductive model" which is one of the most commonly used models to explain the relationship between education and infertility. The model analyzes the number of children of the parent's income quality and role. Sometimes parents' income increases, children's quality and quality improve. Becker believes that the number of income elasticities of children and income elasticity is related to the quality of children. From the standpoint of increasing expenditure on children, leading to the spread of high quality. In this case, the alternative effect will affect the income effect

Relationship with infertility The theory of education is very broad. More precisely, in order to explain this relationship, the studies of analysis Barro and Becker (1988), Livi-Baci (1997) and Willis (1973) are very important. They agreed that women who received more education on deadline increase opportunity costs will decline their birthrate. The other models show that women's wages are mainly explaining the opportunity cost of growth. Analysis of children's Montgomery and Trussel (1986) as normal items. Here, increasing the income of parents will increase women's education, (children usually) will spend a dominant wage effect because it is usually good. They agreed with the fact that the only education has a positive return over the years, which has an inverse relationship between education and fertility treatment of women.

Nobel laureate winner Gary Becker said that Becker 1976 (Such models include beliefs, preferences and constraints as extended to drug addiction, racial discrimination, crime and punishment, family, education, reproductive and other non- Developed Becker, Tommasi and Ierulli 1995). On the other hand, Becker and his colleagues, although most rationality can be determined by their own interests, it is clear that consistent applications of personal preferences and ethics in choice are consistent. Andreoni and Miller (2002) show this point very clearly, we explain