Determining the causality between health measures and both income and labor productivity remains an ongoing challenge … for economists. This review paper aims to answer the question: Does improved population health lead to higher rates of … agricultural growth? In attempting to answer this question, we survey the empirical literature at micro and macro levels concerning …

framework derived from theory on the determinants of fertility, and estimating a reduced form model that explicitly accounts for … human fertility. Little comprehensive research, however, has been done on the effects of those technologies themselves on … human fertility leaving unanswered the question of whether particular types of agricultural technologies were actually …

discrimination against women and improve the lives of children, as well as those seeking to reduce fertility and population growth … beneficially at both the macro and micro levels to slow population growth, increase productivity, and improve individual health and …The population of the developing world has doubled since 1965 and now stands at 4.8 billion. This growth in human …

This paper examines the impact over the life course of early childhood growth failure as measured by achieved height at … not suffer growth failure in the first three years of life complete more schooling, score higher on tests of cognitive … pregnancies and smaller risk of miscarriages and stillbirths. Growth failure has adverse impacts on body size and several …

Human fertility is likely to affect agricultural production through its effect on the supply of agricultural labor … Uganda—a country that combines a dominant agricultural sector with one of the highest fertility rates in the world. We found … that fertility has a sizable negative effect on household labor allocation to subsistence agriculture. Households with …