-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 …

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

In the postwar period, when fertility dropped substantially, immigration more than made up for the drop in population …

, we find that this population effect results from both a positive effect on fertility and a negative effect on infant and …

fertility and education decisions, and hence, population growth in Africa. We present the results from different scenarios for …

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 …

decline on demographic and economic growth by a family-optimization model, in which fertility is endogenous and wealth yields … population growth, but the desire of status hampers fertility and prevents capital-diluting demographic expansion. If status …