-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 …

the one-child policy and in cohort-specific fertility influenced by the implementation of population control policies are …Using combined data from population censuses and Urban Household Surveys, we study the effects of demographic … care. These findings lend support to a simple economic model in which the effects of population control policies are …

between fertility, the age structure of the population and the age at first marriage of men and women. Within a simple two …I develop an equilibrium, two-sided search model of marriage with endogenous population growth to study the interaction … two different channels. First, as population growth increases, the age structure of the population produces a thicker …

fertility and education decisions, and hence, population growth in Africa. We present the results from different scenarios for …According to recent UN projections more than 50 percent of the growth in world population over the next half century … will be due to population growth in Africa. Given this, any policy that influences African demography will have a …

carbon emissions accounting for the impacts of fertility on population growth, population age structure, and income per …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 …

incentives to sex-select as fertility approaches its target …

Childhood vaccines can increase population growth in the short term by improving the survival rates of young children …. Over the long run, reductions in child mortality rates are associated with lower demand for children and fertility rates … Universal Immunization Programme or UIP). We combine data on the district-wise rollout of UIP during 1985–1990 with fertility …

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

estimate the implications for job creation in 2020–2030 of population growth, changes in labor force participation, and the …

Individuals aged 65 years and older currently make up a larger share of the population than ever before, and this group … is predicted to continue growing both in absolute terms and relative to the rest of the population. This chapter begins …