the rise in the demand for human capital in the process of development was the main trigger for the decline in fertility …

the quantity-quality tradeoff to later work linking the economics of fertility to the theory of economic growth. …This paper reviews Gary Becker's contributions to the economic analysis of fertility, from his 1960 paper introducing …

In this paper we investigate how fertility decisions respond to unexpected career interruptions which occur as a … displacement reduces average fertility by 5 to 10% in both the short and medium term (3 and 6 years) and that these effects are … reduction in fertility is not due to the income loss generated by unemployment but arises because displaced workers undergo a …

fertility, human capital and work orientation of immigrants to their US-born children. We find that second-generation women …'s fertility and labor supply are significantly positively affected by the immigrant generation's fertility and labor supply … respectively, with the effect of mother's fertility and labor supply larger than that of women from the father's source country …

This paper provides a unified theory of the economic and demographic transition. Individuals make optimal decisions … about fertility, education of their children and the type and intensity of the investments in their own education. These … formation, little longevity, high child mortality, large fertility and a sluggish income and productivity growth to a modern …

individuals' education and fertility decisions depend on their life expectancy. The theory predicts that before the demographic … the role of the econometric specification. We present a simple theory of the economic and demographic transition where …