failure that may lead to inefficiently low equilibrium fertility and therefore to a need for government intervention. The …) model with fertility choice and altruism, and model ownership by introducing a minimum constraint on transfers from parents … transfer floor is binding, fertility choices are inefficient. We show how this inefficiency relates to dynamic inefficiency in …

"preventive checks" (marriage, fertility). Developing economies since the Industrial Revolution, and more recently especially … Asian economies, have experienced steady income growth accompanied by sharply falling fertility and mortality rates. We … develop a dynamic model of endogenous fertility, longevity, and human capital formation within a Malthusian framework that …

This paper examines the central hypothesis of the influential Malthusian theory, according to which improvements in the … productivity and the level of technological advancement the analysis demonstrates that, in accordance with the theory …

This paper investigates how fertility responds to changes in the price of a marginal child and in household income. We … construct a large, individual-level panel data set of married Israeli women during the period 1999-2005 that contains fertility … subsidy for infra-marginal children). We find a significant and positive price effect on fertility: the mean level of marginal …

We provide evidence that lower fertility can simultaneously increase income per capita and lower carbon emissions …, eliminating a trade-off central to most policies aimed at slowing global climate change. We estimate the effect of lower fertility … on carbon emissions accounting for the fact that changes in fertility patterns affect carbon emissions through three …

access to educational opportunities could permanently reduce inequality. Empirical evidence suggests that the fertility …

fertility of an innovation in generating more innovations cannot be observed. The menu of patent scope can be implemented with … mandated buyout fees. Evidence of heterogeneous fertility and patent obsolescence, keys to the model, are presented using …

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