Dalgaard, Carl-Johan; Strulik, Holger - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Leibniz … - 2012
, economically and physiologically. Empirically, the timing of the fertility transition is strongly correlated with average body size … development. In support, we provide a model of long-run growth, which elucidates the links between population size, average body … size and income during development. Industrialization is shown to be accompanied by a reduction in family size and an …