Much of Africa has not yet gone through a "demographic transition" 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 population …, econometric estimation is complicated by endogeneity among fertility and other variables of interest. We attempt to improve …

heightened male mortality. This tendency toward female offspring is interpretable in light of the Trivers-Willard (1973 …

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

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 …

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 …

fertility, mortality, human capital and intergenerational mobility, looking for structural breaks associated with the French … village. We find that the fall in fertility preceded the rise in education by several decades. Demographic change is plausibly …

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