An Economic Analysis of Fertility, Market Participation and Marriage Behaviour in Recent Japan

• Main Authors: LEE, David K. C., GAN, Chin Lee
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 1989
• Subjects: Economic surveys; Labor supply; Labor market; Fertility; Housing surveys; Marriage; Japan; Asian Studies; Human Resources Management; Labor Economics
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/3369; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/4368/viewcontent/EconomicAnalysisFertilityJapan_1989.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

This is the 1st attempt in modelling fertility, labor force participation and marriage rate using Japanese data. The authors use Butz and Ward's model and extend it to a simultaneous equation system as in the case of Winegarden. Although the estimates obtained by Full Information Maximum Likeli...