This paper looks at the fertility, mortality, and marriage experience of racial, ethnic, and nativity groups in the … three dimensions of demographic behavior. There has been both absolute and relative convergence of fertility across groups …

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

For most of human history, until the fertility transition, technological progress translated into larger populations … dynamics after the European discovery and colonization of the Americas. We document a strong relationship between fertility and … identification strategies. During the Age of Mass Migration, persistently high fertility across much of Europe created a large …

fertility, mortality, human capital and intergenerational mobility, looking for structural breaks associated with the French … village. We find that the fall in fertility preceded the rise in education by several decades. Demographic change is plausibly …

We analyze the effect of fertility on income per capita with a particular focus on the experience of Europe. For … European countries with below-replacement fertility, the cost of continued low fertility will only be observed in the long run …. We show that in the short run, a fall in the fertility rate will lower the youth dependency ratio and increase the …

intergenerational altruism. Thus, immigrants may be self-selected on fertility. Soviet Jews who migrate to Israel despite high migration …. Selection on altruism can explain why historically immigrant-absorbing countries like the U.S. have higher fertility than other …

Using data from the 1970 and 1980 Censuses, we examined the fertility of immigrant women from the Middle East, Asia …, Latin America and the Caribbean where fertility rates averaged in excess of 5.5 children per women during the period of … immigration to the U.S. Perhaps the most interesting finding of this study is that immigrants from these on average high fertility …

; the relation between income growth and income and fertility distributions; and the relevance of human capital in …, knowledge spillover effects play a key role. The analysis offers new insights for understanding the decline in fertility below … population replacement rate in many developed countries; the evolution of income and fertility distributions across developing …