-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 …

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

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 …

work effort, fertility, and the demographic transition. And it affects total factor productivity by constraining or …

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 …

High-income countries have generally experienced falling fertility in recent decades. In most of these countries, the … total fertility rate is now below the level that implies a stable population in the long run. This has led to concerns among … economists, policymakers, and the wider public about the economic consequences of low fertility and population decline. In this …

in the Journal. Fertility naturally plays an important role in population economics. Its size has decreased significantly … from the 1900s. Long time-series regarding fertility and basic trends in Germany are documented and analyzed. We identify … three different explanatory approaches for the decline in fertility, according to which the various articles of the Journal …

We set up an overlapping generations model with endogenous fertility to study pensions policies in an ageing economy … have negative effects on the fertility rate, thus exacerbating population ageing. …