traditional equilibrium, contraceptives are not used, fertility is high and education and growth are low. At the modern … equilibrium, contraceptives are used, fertility is low and further declining with increasing income, and education and growth are … provide more education for their children and leads to an earlier uptake of modern contraceptives and an earlier onset of the …

increasing education and declining labor supply (of cohorts born 1850-1950) as an optimal response to increasing active life …

respond to a longer stay in a healthy state of high productivity by obtaining more education and supplying less labor. Better … health increases productivity and amplifies the return on education. The health accelerator allows workers to finance … for leisure is sufficiently strong or the return on education is sufficiently large. We calibrate an extended version of …

firms. In so doing we integrate a micro-founded education and fertility decision of households into a model of international … in the education level of its population, ii) the export share of a country decreases in the birth rate of its population …, iii) the average profitability of firms increases in the education level of a country, iv) the average profitability of …

A core mechanism of unified growth theory is that accelerating technological progress induces mass education and … gender wage gap, we establish (1) a significant impact of technological progress on education (positive) and fertility …

calibrate the model to US data and show that the historical evolution of increasing education and declining labor supply can be …

We generalize a trade model with firm-specific heterogeneity and R&D-based growth to allow for an endogenous education …