In the period before the onset of demographic transition, when fertility rates were positively associated with income …

Three profound changes - the mortality, fertility and contraception transitions - characterized the Victorian era in … their fertility target at no cost. The historical experience from Victorian England is at odds with this view of costless … fertility regulation. We incorporate costly fertility limitation into the Becker paradigm: in our story, the mortality …

. When child mortality falls from lower prevalence, as in western Europe, labor productivity improves, fertility falls and …

We develop an overlapping generation model to examine how the relationship between status concerns, fertility and … facts about fertility during the "great transition". …

positions in the demographic cycles. The effects of lower lifetime fertility and technological progress are also examined. …