According to recent UN projections more than 50 percent of the growth in world population over the next half century … significant impact on the world distribution of income. In this paper we discuss the potential for migration policies to affect … fertility and education decisions, and hence, population growth in Africa. We present the results from different scenarios for …

-optimization model with sharecropping, endogenous fertility and status seeking. We show that tenant farming is the major obstacle to … escaping the Malthusian trap with high fertility and low productivity. A land reform provides peasant families higher returns … decreases fertility and increases productivity in agriculture in the short and long runs. The European demographic history …

This article examines pollution and environmental mortality in an economy where fertility is endogenous and output is … decreasing fertility and the population size. Correspondingly, if the clean sector is more capital intensive, then the emission … tax decreases the wage and increases fertility. Although the proportion of the dirty sector in production falls, the …

fertility rate and emigration rate are going to develop in Africa. Even modest increases in emigration from Africa would … generate major increases in immigration pressure in the rest of the world, mostly in Europe. Other major questions on the …

of it was intended to illuminate issues of compelling policy importance, such as declining fertility and population aging …

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 …

upheld, delaying declines in fertility and creating population momentum. The bigger population, in turn, degrades local …

the rise in the demand for human capital in the process of development was the main trigger for the decline in fertility … and the transition to modern growth. -- demographic transition ; gender gap ; human capital ; fertility ; mortality …

It is widely argued that declining fertility slows the pace of economic growth in industrialized countries through its … negative effect on labor supply. There are, however, theoretical arguments suggesting that the effect of falling fertility on … consumer optimization model that incorporates endogenous fertility as well as endogenous education and health investments. The …