This paper studies the link between crime and fertility and the way by which they jointly impact on economic growth. In …-linear effects on both crime and fertility. At the same time, it reveals a negative effect on output growth. … offenders face in escaping apprehension, increases both crime and fertility non-monotonically, giving rise to an ambiguous …

capital, endogenous fertility and positive spillovers from average human capital. Such spillovers reduce human capital … investment but raise fertility from their social optimum. We first characterize the social optimum with a non-convex feasible set …

effect that fertility plays on human capital accumulation, and hence on economic growth. The non-monotonic effect of …This paper investigates the relationship between per capita human capital investment and the fertility rate. In the … on how fertility directly affects per capita human capital accumulation. The results obtained in this model are then …

. By integrating the theoretical analyses of endogenous growth, corruption and fertility choices, we show that the negative … relation between fertility and economic development may also be affected by differences in the magnitude of bureaucratic …

This paper examines a novel mechanism linking fertility and growth. There are three components to the model. First … transition: a rapid decline in fertility accompanied by accelerated output growth. … to men's. Second, increasing women's relative wages reduces fertility by raising the cost of children more than household …

This paper develops a unified model of growth, population, and technological progress that is consistent with long …-term historical evidence. The economy endogenously evolves through three phases. In the Malthusian regime, population growth is … population, so that output per capita is stable around a constant level. In the post-Malthusian regime, the growth rates of …

This research develops an evolutionary growth theory that captures the interplay between the evolution of mankind and … economic growth since the emergence of the human species. This unified theory encompasses the observed evolution of population …, technology and income per capita in the long transition from an epoch of Malthusian stagnation to sustained economic growth. The …

This Paper develops a theory of fertility and child educational choice that offers an explanation for the persistence … human capital. As a result, the poor choose high fertility rates with low education investment and therefore, their … offspring are poor as well. Furthermore, the high fertility rates in poor economies dilute physical capital accumulation and …

This paper examines the historical evolution of the relationship between population growth, technological change, and … the ``Modern Growth Regime". We view the unified modeling of this long transition process - from thousand of years of … Malthusian stagnation through the demographic transition to modern growth - as one of the most significant research challenges …

fertility transition: a mortality transition that is not accompanied by improving morbidity causes slower demographic and … of population health and economic growth unless morbidity falls with mortality. …The link between the mortality and epidemiological transitions is used to identify the effect of the former on the …