RIEB Discussion Paper Series No.2022-13

Title

A Spatial Panel Data Analysis of Fertility Rates: Unraveling Two Myths

Abstract

This paper analyzes the relationship between total fertility rates and other socio-economic variables. The main results are against two myths: rural areas have higher total fertility rates than urban ones, and economic inequality harms total fertility rates. The key is a spatial panel data analysis with the lag between inception and birth. Here, spatial panel data analysis improves the effciency of explanatory variables, and the lag produces a different result from former papers.

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Yosuke SASAKI
Center for Computational Social Science (CCSS)
Research Institute for Economics and Business Administration(RIEB)
Kobe University
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Takashi KAMIHIGASHI
Center for Computational Social Science (CCSS)
Research Institute for Economics and Business Administration(RIEB)
Kobe University