The demographic transition --the move from a high fertility/high mortality regime into a low fertility/low mortality … transitions. It also produces a correlation between the speeds of fertility transition and increases in schooling similar to the …

mortality rates. We develop a dynamic model of endogenous fertility, longevity, and human capital formation within a Malthusian … accounts for economic stagnation with high fertility and mortality and constant population and income, as predicted by Malthus …, but also for takeoffs to a growth regime and a demographic transition toward low fertility and mortality rates, and a …

mortality, fertility, and the economy in the short and medium run. The role of nonpharmaceutical interventions in shaping those …

Understanding how mortality and fertility are linked is essential to the study of population dynamics. We investigate … the fertility response to an unanticipated mortality shock that resulted from the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, which killed … population-representative multilevel longitudinal data, we identify a behavioral fertility response to mortality exposure, both …

not been very successful at reproducing the changes in fertility choice in response to decreased mortality and increased …The Barro-Becker model is a simple intuitive model of fertility choice. In its original formulation, however, it has … intertemporal elasticity of substitution (IES) typically assumed in the fertility literature. We show that, not only is this …

Fertility decisions are often made by partners who may disagree. We develop a model in which conflicting interests … to further widen the spousal disagreement over fertility in environments where maternal health risk is high and … complications - but only when the information is delivered to wives rather than husbands is this decline in fertility accompanied by …

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

This paper argues that the secular decline in mortality, which began during the eighteenth century, is still in …