Between 1950 and 2017, world average life expectancy increased from below-50 to above-70, while the fertility rate …

We provide evidence that lower fertility can simultaneously increase income per capita and lower carbon emissions …, eliminating a trade-off central to most policies aimed at slowing global climate change. We estimate the effect of lower fertility … on carbon emissions accounting for the fact that changes in fertility patterns affect carbon emissions through three …

unmarried women, thereby delaying female marriage, lowering fertility, and unleashing economic growth. We show that this …

predicts lower future pensions to reduce fertility, while the 'old-age security' to increase it. Our empirical analysis … identifies a clear and robust positive effect of less generous future pensions on post-reform fertility. These findings are … consistent with 'old-age security' even for contemporary fertility …

the political turmoil in the Arab world, with the so-called Arab Spring …

migration affected fertility by building a decennial bilateral migration matrix between French regions for 1861-1911. The … suggest the convergence towards low birth rates can be explained by the diffusion of low-fertility norms by migrants …

This paper examines the relationship between international migration and source country fertility. The impact of … international migration on source country fertility may have a number of causes, including a transfer of destination countries …' fertility norms and an incentive to acquire more education. We provide a rigorous test of the diffusion of fertility norms using …

and growth, whose simulations match our empirical findings. The current trend of population aging and reduced fertility is …