youth cohort size. Finally, due to recent declines in fertility, some European countries will see reductions in the size of …

developing countries. This paper presents a theoretical model which integrates micro-level decision making about fertility and …

Transitions from high mortality and fertility to low mortality and fertility can be beneficial to economies as large … the positive effects of demographic change during 1960-95. We also show how Ireland benefited from lower fertility in the …

The demographic transition --the move from a high fertility/high mortality regime into a low fertility/low mortality … transitions. It also produces a correlation between the speeds of fertility transition and increases in schooling similar to the …

examines the relationship between population change and economic development in particular regions of the world: East Asia …, combined with reduced fertility and increases in the working-age population, have contributed to economic growth in some areas … of the developing world …

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

recorded immigrant arrivals increased the growth rate. By the two decades prior to World War I, about one third of total … `long' nineteenth century. The fertility transition was early (dating from at least 1800) and from very high levels. The … levels were moderate, and death rates began their sustained decline only by the 1870s, long after the fertility transition …