, starvation) and quot;preventive checksquot; (marriage, fertility). Developing economies since the Industrial Revolution, and more … recently especially Asian economies, have experienced steady income growth accompanied by sharply falling fertility and … mortality rates. We develop a dynamic model of endogenous fertility, longevity, and human capital formation within a Malthusian …

failure that may lead to inefficiently low equilibrium fertility and therefore to a need for government intervention. The …) model with fertility choice and altruism, and model ownership by introducing a minimum constraint on transfers from parents … transfer floor is binding, fertility choices are inefficient. We show how this inefficiency relates to dynamic inefficiency in …

This paper studies the effect of mothers' education on fertility in a population with very low female labor force … large increase in schooling attainment triggered a sharp decline in completed fertility. We show that no other changes … convergence in fertility and schooling, changes in labor-force participation, age upon marriage, marriage and divorce rates, and …

The current study finds that societies which historically engaged in plough agriculture today have lower fertility. We … fertility …

This paper examines how marital and fertility patterns have changed along racial and educational lines for men and …

Economic demographers have long analyzed fertility cycles. This paper builds a foundation for these cycles in a model … of fertility choice with dynastic altruism and aggregate shocks. It is shown that under reasonable parameter values …, fertility is pro-cyclical and that, following a shock, fertility continues to cycle endogenously as subsequent cohorts enter …