Herzer, Dierk; Strulik, Holger; Vollmer, Sebastian - In: Journal of Economic Growth 17 (2012) 4, pp. 357-385
We examine the long-run relationship between fertility, mortality, and income using panel cointegration techniques and … the available data for the last century. Our main result is that mortality changes and growth of income contributed to the … fertility transition. The fertility reduction triggered by falling mortality, however, is not enough to overcompensate the …