Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem - EconWPA - 2002
survival, a decline in an exogenous mortality rate reduces precautionary demand for children and increases parental investment … in each child. Once mortality is endogenized, population growth becomes a hump-shaped function of income per capita. At … low levels of income population growth rises as income per capita rises leading to a Malthusian steady-state equilibrium …