developing countries. This paper presents a theoretical model which integrates micro-level decision making about fertility and …

youth cohort size. Finally, due to recent declines in fertility, some European countries will see reductions in the size of …

fertility nations (Japan, Spain, Italy) as being in this regime. At even higher levels of women's status, men begin to share in …Only a few rich nations are currently at replacement levels of fertility and many are considerably below. We believe … that changes in the status of women are driving fertility change. At low levels of female status, women specialize in …

who are not born. We show how these concepts relate to the notion of Pareto-efficiency when fertility is exogenous. We …

We provide evidence that lower fertility can simultaneously increase income per capita and lower carbon emissions …, eliminating a trade-off central to most policies aimed at slowing global climate change. We estimate the effect of lower fertility … on carbon emissions accounting for the fact that changes in fertility patterns affect carbon emissions through three …

Much of Africa has not yet gone through a quot;demographic transitionquot; to reduced mortality and fertility rates …. The fact that the continent's countries remain mired in a Malthusian crisis of high mortality, high fertility, and rapid …, econometric estimation is complicated by endogeneity among fertility and other variables of interest. We attempt to improve …