mortality and high fertility to an equilibrium with low mortality and fewer children, lower dependency ratios, higher investment … rapid fertility decline, so that the long-run effects of the demographic transition on inequality remain ambiguous. …

in East Asia, and in Asia more generally, with fertility rates falling below replacement in many of these countries. In …

The decline in the total fertility rate between 1960 and 2005, coupled with an increase in life expectancy and the … response to the decline in fertility, child quality/quantity trade-off in the face of the fertility decline, savings …

fertility. Baby boom generations produce an echo, in the form of a large cohort of children a generation later, creating long … that transitions from high mortality and fertility to low mortality and fertility can be beneficial to economies as the … the positive effects of demographic change during 1960-95. We also show how Ireland benefited from lower fertility in the …

We estimate the effect of fertility on female labor force participation in a cross-country panel data set using … abortion legislation as an instrument for fertility. We find a large negative effect of the fertility rate on female labor … persistent over time giving an effect among older women. We present a simulation model of the effect of fertility reduction on …