We revisit the effect of long run income growth on population fertility in some of the poorest countries in the world …

We assess Africa's prospects for enjoying a demographic dividend. While fertility rates and dependency ratios in Africa … that by the mid-21st century the ratio of the working-age to dependent population will be greater than in Asia, Europe, and … Northern America. This projection suggests Africa has considerable potential to enjoy a demographic dividend. Whether and when …

We study the long-term determinants of the high rates of HIV infection in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly among women …

The population literature in theoretical economics has long focused on attempts to avoid the repugnant conclusion. We … advance the literature by proving that no social ordering in population economics can escape the repugnant conclusion in all …

In the postwar period, when fertility dropped substantially, immigration more than made up for the drop in population … growth, and from 1950 to 2020, population increased by 73%, double the European rate, in a country with population density … already among the highest in Europe. Yet, there never has been a serious population policy, and in fact, central spatial …

progress. -- Out of Africa hypothesis ; human genetic diversity ; comparative development ; population density ; Neolithic … empirically establishes the hypothesis that in the course of the exodus of Homo sapiens out of Africa, variation in migratory …

Do populations grow as countries become richer? In this paper we estimate the effects on population growth of shocks to … is positively associated with population growth. The IV estimates indicate that a one percentage point increase in GDP … per capita growth over a ten year period increases countries' population growth by around 0.1 percentage points. Further …