This paper reviews Gary Becker's contributions to the economic analysis of fertility, from his 1960 paper introducing … the quantity-quality tradeoff to later work linking the economics of fertility to the theory of economic growth …

Empirical growth regressions typically include mean years of schooling as a proxy for human capital. However, empirical … research often finds that the sign and significance of schooling depends on the sample of observations or the specification of … a rigorous and systematic search for significance of mean years of schooling by examining five of the most comprehensive …

decreasing through their affect on the opportunity cost of schooling. By increasing the opportunity cost of schooling, microloans …

about fertility, education of their children and the type and intensity of the investments in their own education. These … formation, little longevity, high child mortality, large fertility and a sluggish income and productivity growth to a modern … growth regime in which lower net fertility is associated with the acquisition of human capital and improved living standards …