Skip navigation
  • Home
  • Browse
    • Communities
      & Collections
    • Browse Items by:
    • Publication Date
    • Author
    • Title
    • Subject
    • Department
  • Sign on to:
    • My MacSphere
    • Receive email
      updates
    • Edit Profile


McMaster University Home Page
  1. MacSphere
  2. Open Access Dissertations and Theses Community
  3. Open Access Dissertations and Theses
Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/11375/15506
Title: Education, Fertility, and Remittances in the Traditional Sector of a Developing Economy
Authors: Agheyisi, Rachel
Advisor: Spencer, B.G.
Denton, F.T.
Department: Economics
Keywords: Social Economics;Developing
Publication Date: Feb-1988
Abstract: The determinants of fertility behavior vary considerably from country to country. An oft-cited motivation for childbearing in developing countries is the economic returns parents expect to receive fro. their children. The demand for children as security assets is important in areas where insecurity is rife, alternative assets are risky or absent, and the support provided by children lacks market substitutes. An overlapping generations model in which fertility, children's education and migration are jointly determined by rural agricultural households is formulated. The effects on family size of changes in education costs, urban wages, child altruism towards parents, and rural living conditions are derived from the model. Same policy implications c-f the theoretical results are examined. The findings appear ta support the notion that as long as a traditional family-based system of obligations is retained and urban-rural wage differentials remain large, the security native will continue ta be significant as an explanation fer the high level of fertility in traditional rural societies.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/11375/15506
Appears in Collections:Open Access Dissertations and Theses

Files in This Item:
File Description SizeFormat 
agheyisi rachel.pdf
Open Access
5.81 MBAdobe PDFView/Open
Show full item record Statistics


Items in MacSphere are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.

Sherman Centre for Digital Scholarship     McMaster University Libraries
©2022 McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4L8 | 905-525-9140 | Contact Us | Terms of Use & Privacy Policy | Feedback

Report Accessibility Issue