There is growing concern about a decline in the total fertility rate worldwide, but nowhere is the concern greater than … generate incentives for individuals to reduce not just the fertility rate within families, but also the incentive to form … fertility rates. Our results show that the impact of social security on these variables has been non-trivial. Our calibrated …

"preventive checks" (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 framework that …

the downward trends in family formation and fertility worldwide, and for a slowdown in the rates of savings and economic …

dynamic evolution of income and fertility distributions and their interdependencies over three endogenous phases of economic … development. In our model, heterogeneous families determine fertility and children's human capital, and generations are linked via … inequalities in fertility, educational attainments, and three endogenous income inequality measures -- family-income inequality …