survival is found to reduce the fertility rate and altruistic transfers, and thereby increase the savings rate and the …This paper develops a link between four central components of the demographic transition: survival rates; fertility …

estimates the association between changes in the share of working-age population with per capita growth, savings, and poverty … gross domestic product per capita growth by more than one percentage point, with similarly positive effects on savings and …

group are high-fertility, low-income countries that are lagging in many human development indicators. In the second group … are mostly low- and lower-middle-income countries where fertility rates have started falling recently and where changes in …-middle-income countries that experienced rapid fertility declines in the 1960s, and where working age people will be a shrinking share of the …

annuities, or for a given level of annuitization, both increasing longevity and decreasing fertility should reduce the inherited … unequally distributed if aging is driven by a drop in fertility. In comparison, the effect of increasing longevity on their …

most notably in the poorest countries. Lowering fertility has many benefits for the poorest countries. Studies indicate … that, in high fertility settings, fertility decline facilitates economic growth and poverty reduction. It also reduces the … fertility, and that they are highly pro-poor in their impact. While the rest of the world wrestles with the complexities of …

The apparently inexorable rise in the proportion of quot;missing girlsquot; in much of East and South Asia has …, where child sex ratios were the highest in Asia but peaked in the mid-1990s and normalized thereafter. Using census data, we …, the quot;missing girlsquot; phenomenon could be addressed in Asia …