fertility and an increase in urbanization that has had profound economic, social and political consequences. However …, historically, declines in mortality and fertility, and escape from the Malthusian trap, have required countries to have already …

We investigate the empirical relationship between child mortality and fertility across 46 low and middle income … countries. Specifically, we model the effect of mortality expectations and interdependent fertility preferences on fertility …. The direct marginal effect of mortality expectations on fertility is larger than zero but less than unity. This implies …

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. …

fertility rates. …

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 …