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 …

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 …

mortality. The authors test the hypothesis that selection during famine changes the frailty distributions of cohorts and may … hide negative long-term effects. They use death counts from age 60+ from the Human Mortality Data Base for the birth …. Statistically, long-term effects of famine on mortality become only visible when changes in the frailty distribution of cohorts are …

Background: Nutrition in utero and infancy may causally affect health and mortality at old ages. Until now, very few … individual characteristics and additional (early life) determinants of mortality. Results: Men exposed to severe famine during …. Conclusion: To our knowledge, this is the first evidence suggesting long-run effects of early nutritional stresses on mortality …

malnutrition on sex of the child and infant mortality. In addition, we estimate the impact of malnutrition on post-famine pregnancy … during the famine. Finally, controlling for pre-famine fertility, we find that women who were pregnant during the Famine …

measured by age-specific birth and mortality rates, focusing on a nationwide socialized medicine program implemented in Turkey … and over time. Our estimates indicate that the FMP caused large declines in mortality rates across all age groups with … teenagers. Furthermore, the results are suggestive that the program has also contributed towards equalization in the mortality …

) mortality later in life. In addition, we examine to what extent these long-run effects run by way of cognitive ability and … (across the full range) and CV mortality rate later in life is significantly stronger if the individual is born in a recession …. This is not explained by differential fertility by social class over the cycle. Ability itself, as measured at age 10 …

mortality. We find some evidence of community rebuilding and replacement fertility, but the net long-term effect is fertility …This paper studies the effect of the 1918–19 influenza pandemic on fertility using a historical dataset from Sweden …. Our results suggest an immediate reduction in fertility driven by morbidity, and additional behavioral effects driven by …

formation, little longevity, high child mortality, large fertility and a sluggish income and productivity growth to a modern … about fertility, education of their children and the type and intensity of the investments in their own education. These … decisions are affected by different dimensions of mortality and technological progress which change endogenously during the …