There has been little empirical work evaluating the sensitivity of fertility to financial incentives at the household … female participation and fertility, using individual data from the French Labor Force Survey and a fairly detailed … fertility decisions in France, both for the first and for the third child. As an example, an unconditional child benefit with a …

We study the development of teenage fertility in East and West Germany using data from the German Socioeconomic Panel … teenage fertility and test whether they are relevant in the German case. We find that teenage fertility is associated with … aggregate unemployment. Our evidence supports countercyclical teenage fertility. …

-optimization model with sharecropping, endogenous fertility and status seeking. We show that tenant farming is the major obstacle to … escaping the Malthusian trap with high fertility and low productivity. A land reform provides peasant families higher returns … decreases fertility and increases productivity in agriculture in the short and long runs. The European demographic history …

contribution of external migration to population growth. Next, similarities and differences in the current immigration policies are …

R&D-based growth theory suggests that a larger population size raises either the long-run rate of economic growth … heterogeneous agents and entrepreneurial innovations in which any form of scale effect is absent. A higher population growth rate … also in absence of population growth and generally is policy-dependent. …

, we find that this population effect results from both a positive effect on fertility and a negative effect on infant and …Do populations grow as countries become richer? In this paper we estimate the effects on population growth of shocks to … is positively associated with population growth. The IV estimates indicate that a one percentage point increase in GDP …

population growth, but the desire of status hampers fertility and prevents capital-diluting demographic expansion. If status … decline on demographic and economic growth by a family-optimization model, in which fertility is endogenous and wealth yields …-seeking is strong, then the decline of mortality decreases population growth below its original level. …

the one-child policy and in cohort-specific fertility influenced by the implementation of population control policies are …Using combined data from population censuses and Urban Household Surveys, we study the effects of demographic … care. These findings lend support to a simple economic model in which the effects of population control policies are …