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 …

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

; Japan; OECD, North America and Western Europe; South-central and Southeast Asia; Latin America; Middle East and North Africa …; Sub-Saharan Africa; and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Finally, it discusses the key policy variables that …, combined with reduced fertility and increases in the working-age population, have contributed to economic growth in some areas …

have emphasized changes in the supply of technologies to control fertility, including abortion and birth control. In this … measure the effect of changes in the supply of fertility technologies on the number of children born. I estimate an increase … of fertility control supply restrictions on birthrates today. The importance of legal abortion in reducing 19th …

simulation model. In addition to describing general transition (as opposed to simply long run) affects of fertility change, the …, the savings inthe U.S. fertility currently underway can have very major impacts on long run factor returns and produce … in the case of a sustained dropin the fertility rate. This reflects, in part, the decline in the number of dependent …