This paper argues that the secular decline in mortality, which began during the eighteenth century, is still in …

mortality, fertility, and the economy in the short and medium run. The role of nonpharmaceutical interventions in shaping those …

Fertility decisions are often made by partners who may disagree. We develop a model in which an initial gender gap in … ideal fertility prevents effective communication between spouses about the costs of childbearing incurred by women. This … mechanism is likely to further widen the spousal disagreement over fertility in environments where maternal health risk is high …

The paper documents the contribution to slower GDP growth of the separate components of demography -- fertility …, mortality, life expectancy, and immigration. Particular emphasis is placed on the interaction between rising inequality and 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 …

not been very successful at reproducing the changes in fertility choice in response to decreased mortality and increased …The Barro-Becker model is a simple intuitive model of fertility choice. In its original formulation, however, it has … intertemporal elasticity of substitution (IES) typically assumed in the fertility literature. We show that, not only is this …

Much of Africa has not yet gone through a "demographic transition" to reduced mortality and fertility rates. The fact … that the continent's countries remain mired in a Malthusian crisis of high mortality, high fertility, and rapid population …, econometric estimation is complicated by endogeneity among fertility and other variables of interest. We attempt to improve …

Asian economies, have experienced steady income growth accompanied by sharply falling fertility and mortality rates. We … economic stagnation with high fertility and mortality and constant population and income, as predicted by Malthus, but also for … takeoffs to a growth regime and a demographic transition toward low fertility and mortality rates, and a persistent growth in …