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 … high. The theory motivates a "wanted fertility reversal": At the traditional equilibrium, men prefer more children than …

population growth, an implication which is hard to see in the data. Here we integrate micro-founded fertility and schooling into … future economic growth - when fertility is going to be below replacement level in virtually all fully developed countries …

setup with micro-founded fertility and schooling behavior. We then show how a Beckerian child quality-quantity trade …-run prospects for future economic growth - when fertility is going to be below replacement level in virtually all developed …

interaction with child quantity-quality substitution, a decline in fertility. Using unique new data for 21 OECD countries over … technological progress on investmentsin education and a strongly negative one on fertility. Using two-stage regressions, we assess … increase of enrollment in primary and secondary school isassociated with a decline of the general fertility rate by 3 to 4 …

interaction with child quantity-quality substitution, a decline in fertility. Using unique new data for 21 OECD countries over the … technological progress on investments in education and a strongly negative one on fertility. Using two-stage regressions, we assess … increase of enrollment in primary and secondary school is associated with a decline of the general fertility rate by 3 to 4 …

, through interaction with child quantity‐quality substitution, a decline in fertility. Using unique new data for 21 OECD … gender wage gap, we establish (1) a significant impact of technological progress on education (positive) and fertility … (negative); (2) that accelerating technological progress stimulated the fertility transition; and (3) that the baseline results …

nutrition of their offspring. In this setting we demonstrate that relatively high metabolic costs of fertility, which may have …

In this paper, we study the evolution of the distribution of fertility rates across the world from 1950 to 2005 using … components: a high-fertility regime and a low-fertility regime. Whereas the significance of twin peaks vanishes over time, the … two fertility regimes continue to exists over the whole observation period. In 1950, about two thirds of the world …

We examine the long-run relationship between fertility, mortality, and income using panel cointegration techniques and … for a major part of the fertility change characterizing the demographic transition. The fertility reduction triggered by … mortality, and the sample period. In addition, our causality tests suggest that fertility changes are both cause and consequence …

setup with micro-founded fertility and schooling behavior. We then show how a Beckerian child quality-quantity trade …-run prospects for future economic growth - when fertility is going to be below replacement level in virtually all developed …