an important predictor of adult life expectancy. Fertility, childhood development, longevity, education and income growth … different regimes. In a Malthusian regime with no education fertility increases with adult life expectancy. In the modern growth … regime, life expectancy and fertility move in opposite directions. The dynamics display the key features of the demographic …

an important predictor of adult life expectancy. Fertility, childhood development, longevity, education and income growth … different regimes. In a Malthusian regime with no education fertility increases with adult life expectancy. In the modern growth … regime, life expectancy and fertility move in opposite directions. The dynamics display the key features of the demographic …

fertility move in opposite direction. Along these lines, we propose a continuous time model where fertility, childhood … development, longevity, education and income growth result all from individual decisions. The dynamics display the key features of … development leads the rise in education. …

We propose four arguments favoring the idea that medical effectiveness, adult longevity and height started to increase …

the first time a worldwide, long-running, consistent database, that mortality displays no trend during the Malthusian era …

unambiguously increases fertility. With children educated in schools and parents paying tuition fees, the reaction of fertility to … additional children is sufficiently low, fertility will decrease. Without a schooling system, rising life expectancy therefore … initially increases fertility. As during the development process life expectancy rises, a schooling system will be endogenously …

the first time a worldwide, long-running, consistent database, that there was no trend in mortality rates during the …

and later life health and mortality and (ii) historical evidence on the relationship between body mass, morbidity and … mortality. We conclude with a discussion of the importance of historical sources and understandings to health economics and …

positive selection on health from high infant mortality rates during this period (18 percent), our findings suggest a strong …

-related variables, is the most robust determinant of the fertility transition. As regards the health transition, both education and … income are significant determinants of mortality rates, but education alone accounts for the bulk of their time variation … since 1870. A simple theoretical framework accounts for the possibly nonmonotonic variations of fertility in the course of …