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Dynamics and Stagnation in the Malthusian Epoch
Ashraf, Quamrul H. - 2011
This paper examines the central hypothesis of the influential Malthusian theory, according to which improvements in the technological environment during the pre-industrial era had generated only temporary gains in income per capita, eventually leading to a larger, but not significantly richer,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013125175
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Grandpa and the Snapper: the Wellbeing of the Elderly who Live with Children
Deaton, Angus; Stone, Arthur A. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
fertility rates are higher, the elderly do not appear to have lower life evaluations when they live with children; such living …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969330
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New Evidence on the Causal Link Between the Quantity and Quality of Children
Angrist, Joshua; Lavy, Victor Chaim; Schlosser, Analia - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
look at the causal effect of family size on completed educational attainment, fertility, and earnings. For the purposes of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005720737
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Contraception as Development? New Evidence from Family Planning in Colombia
Miller, Grant - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
countries reduce fertility or improve socio-economic outcomes. Despite suggestive associations, disagreement persists because … independently later in life. Although family planning explains only about 10% of Colombia%u2019s fertility decline, it appears to … have reduced the otherwise substantial costs of fertility control and may be among the most effective development …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005774729
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New Evidence on the Causal Link between the Quantity and Quality of Children
Angrist, Joshua; Lavy, Victor; Schlosser, Analia - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
variation to look at the causal effect of family size on completed educational attainment, fertility, and earnings. For the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124457
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The Consequences of Teenage Childbearing Before Roe v Wade
Lang, Kevin; Weinstein, Russell - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Using data from three cycles of the National Survey of Family Growth, we investigate whether there were adverse consequences of teenage childbearing in the 1950s and 1960s, when most abortions were illegal, and access to the pill was limited. We find negative effects of teen motherhood on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010709587
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Economic Conditions at Birth, Birth Weight, Ability, and the Causal Path to Cardiovascular Mortality
Modin, Bitte; den Berg, Gerard J van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
. This is not explained by differential fertility by social class over the cycle. Ability itself, as measured at age 10 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011084641
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The Effects on Stature of Poverty, Family Size and Birth Order: British Children in the 1930s
Hatton, Timothy J.; Martin, Richard M. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2008
This paper examines effects of socio-economic conditions on the standardised heights and body mass index of children in Interwar Britain. It uses the Boyd Orr cohort, a survey of predominantly poor families taken in 1937-9, which provides a unique opportunity to explore the determinants of child...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004967985
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Endogenous Fertility, Mortality and Economic Growth : Can a Malthusian Framework Account for the Conflicting Historical Trends in Population?
Ehrlich, Isaac - 2010
, starvation) and quot;preventive checksquot; (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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012762382
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The Relevance of Malthus for the Study of Mortality Today : Long-Run Influences on Health, Mortality, Labor Force Participation, and Population Growth
Fogel, Robert W. - 2021
This paper argues that the secular decline in mortality, which began during the eighteenth century, is still in progress and will probably continue for another century or more. The evolutionary perspective presented in this paper focuses not only on the environment, which from the standpoint of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013245543