standard framework of endogenous fertility, the present paper shows that this result is still valid but that subsidizing … education also requires to tax births. Indeed, education subsidies decrease the net cost of children such that parents can … exhibit a too high fertility rate. Furthemore, when health is introduced as another source of externalities, the model shows …

annuity market with actuarially fair return, imposing the optimum fertility rate and the optimum survival rate leads the …

While demographers Lotka (1939) and Lopez (1961) proposed conditions on (exogenous) fertility and mortality laws under … issues of age structure stabilization and convergence, by considering a population whose fertility and mortality are … structures will end up with the same long-run age structure when fertility and mortality laws are converging, which requires …

annuity market with actuarially fair return, imposing the optimum fertility rate and the optimum survival rate leads the …

seem to be more effective in reducing mortality for children belonging to the richest households, whereas neither pro …This paper analyzes the respective impact of aid, remittances and medical brain drain on child mortality using panel … reduce child mortality and that the impact of health aid is non-linear, suggesting that health aid is more effective in the …

egalitarian grounds --although the conclusion is reversed when mortality strikes only after retirement. …