American Economic Review Vol. 80 No. 5 1990
Intergenerational Income-Group Mobility and Differential Fertility
Abstract
One question development economists are especially interested in, but so far left unanswered, is: how would the societal income distribution be affected by introducing a family-planning program to reduce the reproduction rate of the poor, which is usually high in developing countries? The purpose of this paper is to search for analytical answers to this question. We are able to make definite comparisons about some class of inequality measures of the steady-state societal income distributions, and these comparisons provide strong theoretical support in favor of the above-mentioned family-planning program.
- Volume
- 80
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 1125-1138
- Sources
- bibtex:phds-export.bib