Modeling Household Fertility Decisions: A Nonlinear Simultaneous Probit Model
家庭生育决策建模:非线性联立 probit 模型
This article proposes new methods for modeling household fertility decisions. Much of the demographic literature on this subject suggests that decisions relating to fertility are influenced by the orientations (attitudes, desires, intentions) of both husbands and wives, but the methods used in previous work do not indicate how wife's (husband's) orientation influences husband's (wife's) orientation, nor how these separate phenomena are combined to produce a joint decision.…