Among the most central questions at the intersection of demography and economics is the impact of large scale demographic processes on long-run economic performance. The classical version of this inquiry, occupying thinkers from Malthus towards those from the mid-to-late 20th century, had to do...

This paper estimates the effect of changes in population age structure on fertility. Few factors are as inseparable from economic and demographic theories of underdevelopment as high fertility rates. Most of the empirical literature on fertility focuses on a small set of traditionally...