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 …

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

four decades, despite the fact that in the same period, women's education rapidly increased and fertility rates … at first birth as an instrumental variable to estimate the causal impact of fertility on participation of mothers in the …

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 …

This article examines pollution and environmental mortality in an economy where fertility is endogenous and output is … pollution-induced mortality but also shifts resources to the clean sector. If the dirty sector is more capital intensive, then … decreasing fertility and the population size. Correspondingly, if the clean sector is more capital intensive, then the emission …

first papers on this topic, Barker and Osmond (1986) show a strong positive relationship between infant mortality rates in … average effects conceal underlying heterogeneity: we examine if the infant mortality effect offsets or reinforces one … genetic risk for developing heart disease. Put differently, in areas with the lowest infant mortality rates, the effect of one …

longevity advantage for the whole century. Unlike most mortality databases of this period, genealogical data allows analysis of … spatial patterns and of the impacts of fertility on longevity. Our results suggest very limited evidence of spatial (state …) variation in these patterns. We do, however, find evidence that the associations between fertility and longevity partially …