traditional equilibrium, contraceptives are not used, fertility is high and education and growth are low. At the modern … equilibrium, contraceptives are used, fertility is low and further declining with increasing income, and education and growth are … provide more education for their children and leads to an earlier uptake of modern contraceptives and an earlier onset of the …

increasing education and declining labor supply (of cohorts born 1850-1950) as an optimal response to increasing active life …-run economic development. -- longevity ; active life expectancy ; education ; hours worked ; economic growth. …

firms. In so doing we integrate a micro-founded education and fertility decision of households into a model of international … in the education level of its population, ii) the export share of a country decreases in the birth rate of its population …, iii) the average profitability of firms increases in the education level of a country, iv) the average profitability of …

We set up a unified growth model with gender-specific differences in tastes for consumption, fertility, education of … developed countries, we assume that mothers desire to have no more children than fathers and to invest no less in education per … education, and sluggish economic growth towards a state of low fertility, high education, and fast economic growth if the child …

A core mechanism of unified growth theory is that accelerating technologicalprogress induces mass education and, in … technological progress on investmentsin education and a strongly negative one on fertility. Using two-stage regressions, we assess …