developed world. Absent an immediate and dramatic change in immigration, dependency ratios will roughly double over the next …

aggregate income change is mixed. We analyze economic growth and fertility change in the developing world over six decades …

back into the evolution of average fertility across generations. Theory predicts that changes in the relationship between …

The demographic transition --the move from a high fertility/high mortality regime into a low fertility/low mortality …

examines the relationship between population change and economic development in particular regions of the world: East Asia … of the developing world …

national income, using estimated mortality rates of early European settlers to instrument capital expropriation risk. However … 36 of the 64 countries in their sample are assigned mortality rates from other countries, typically based on mistaken or … conflicting evidence. Also, incomparable mortality rates from populations of laborers, bishops, and soldiers - often on campaign …

Analyzing a variety of cross-national and sub-national data, we argue that high adult mortality reduces economic growth … by shortening time horizons. Higher adult mortality is associated with increased levels of risky behavior, higher … better health care implies that mortality could be the source of a poverty trap. In our regressions, adult mortality explains …