the rise in the demand for human capital in the process of development was the main trigger for the decline in fertility …

between fertility, the age structure of the population and the age at first marriage of men and women. Within a simple two … single women in equilibrium. Using an extended version of the model to a finite number of periods and fertility data, I show …

The historical pattern of the demographic transition suggests that fertility declines follow mortality declines … responses in fertility will reinforce this decline by reducing the willingness to engage in unprotected sex. We utilize recent … rounds of the Demographic and Health Surveys that link an individual woman's fertility outcomes to her HIV status based on …

-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 demographic transition the move from a high fertility/high mortality regime into a low fertility/low mortality … and increasing speed of transitions. It also produces a strong correlation between the speeds of fertility transition and …

. 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 …

sex ratio in World War II contributed to a lower decline in fertility and child mortality rates in postwar Japan. In … particular, the fertility rate would have fallen by an additional 12% and the child mortality rate by an additional 13% between …