fertility and greater parental investment in children; (ii) a rise in married female labor-force participation; (iii) a …. Macroeconomic models explaining these aggregate trends are surveyed. The relentless flow of technological progress and its role in …

The historical pattern of the demographic transition suggests that fertility declines follow mortality declines … responses in fertility will reinforce this decline by reducing the willingness to engage in unprotected sex. We utilize recent … rounds of the Demographic and Health Surveys which link an individual woman's fertility outcomes to her HIV status based on …

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 …

of development (i.e., capital accumulation and declining fertility) exacerbated the tension in men's conflicting … their daughters. The model predicts that declining fertility would hasten reform of women's property rights whereas legal …

dynamic evolution of income and fertility distributions and their interdependencies over three endogenous phases of economic … development. In our model, heterogeneous families determine fertility and children's human capital, and generations are linked via … inequalities in fertility, educational attainments, and three endogenous income inequality measures -- family-income inequality …

Using micro-data from 48 developing countries, I document a recent reversal in the income-fertility relationship and … century's end, both patterns had reversed. Consequently, income differentials in fertility historically raised average …

intergenerational altruism. Thus, immigrants may be self-selected on fertility. Soviet Jews who migrate to Israel despite high migration …. Selection on altruism can explain why historically immigrant-absorbing countries like the U.S. have higher fertility than other …