The Determinants of the Fertility: The Case of Armenia

Abstract

The paper aims to find out the determinants of fertility introducing several of them such as education, migration, wage and GDP, which is highly important as it can help to find the areas needed to concentrate to in order to achieve best possible outcomes. In the light of the inverse J-shaped relationship between GDP per capita and total fertility rates I try to single out the impact of economic growth on the fertility rate of Armenia. Finally the paper comes up with conclusions, policy recommendations the fulfillment of which will contribute to the elimination of current drawbacks and will promote the fertility increase going hand in hand with the economic growth in Armenia.