Ekonomie manželství v podmínkách ČR

The goal of my work is to explain the recent trends in the development of the economy of marriage in the Czech Republic. One of the inseparable parts of my investigation of reproductive decision making using the cost-benefit analysis is the comparison of Gary Becker's economy of marriage, i.e. of the application of Chicago School's theory of consumer demand at the given problematics, with the Pennsylvanian theory of relative income. This comparison is to be done in the conditions of the Czech Republic. Another part of my analysis is formed by the investigation of the much discussed view of children as long-term consumer goods or capital goods. Confronting Chicago School's theory of fertility with its critics is very important. The sub-goal of my work is to prove the connection between marriage rate, birthrate, and economic cycles and also the connection between economic growth and population growth in the Czech Republic. I also concentrate at the change of the trends in reproductive decision making which occurred in the Czech Republic after the fall of communism. Another chapter is devoted to marriage markets and their connection with job markets. The last part of my work concentrates at the effects of pro-natalist politics in the Czech Republic, possibilities of regulating population, and the effectiveness of population politics. At the end of my work I am going to use all my findings to try to answer the question whether it is or is not possible to use the economy of marriage to explain the development trends in the Czech Republic and if necessary I am also going to try to find all the aspects causing deviations from the economic theory.