with below average fertility before WWII and post-WWII capital-people ratios are positively correlated with sizes of ensuing baby booms.

This paper uses a simple general equilibrium models with residential investment and input-output structure to illustrate the effects of demand shocks in the productive economy. A decline in the demand for homes generates a readjustment of the portfolio, and a decline in the demand of...

We examine a competitive theory in which new ideas are introduced only when diminishing returns to the use of existing ideas sets in. After an idea is introduced, the capital associated with that idea expands, and the price of the idea falls. Once the price falls far enough, it becomes...

After the fall in fertility during the Demographic Transition, many developed countries experienced a baby bust, followed by the Baby Boom and subsequently a return to low fertility. Received wisdom from the Demography literature links these large fluctuations in fertility to the series of...

We examine the effects of changes of government provided old age pensions on fertility choices in the context of two models of fertility, the one by Barro and Becker (1989), and the one inpired by Caldwell and developed by Boldrin and Jones (2002). In the Barro and Becker model parents have...