In this paper, I explore in an overlapping generations framework, a mechanism motivating a neurobiological poverty trap …. Poverty causes stress and depression in individuals susceptible to depression. Poor and depressed individuals discount the … depression but also stress and poverty. I show that a successful one-time intervention has the power to permanently eliminate the …

We set up a unified growth model with gender-specific differences in tastes for consumption, fertility, education of … education, and sluggish economic growth towards a state of low fertility, high education, and fast economic growth if the child …

. The article argues that (1) differences in public goods’ provision cause excessive growth of the primate cities; (2 …) better provision of public goods at the national level decreases the difference between growth rates of the primate... …

the available data for the last century. Our main result is that mortality changes and growth of income per capita account …, is insufficient to explain the secular decline of population growth. For that interaction of mortality and income growth … endogenous and exogenous. In particular, we find that an increase of fertility reduces growth of income per capita. …

the available data for the last century. Our main result is that mortality changes and growth of income per capita account …, is insufficient to explain the secular decline of population growth. For that interaction of mortality and income growth … endogenous and exogenous. In particular, we find that an increase of fertility reduces growth of income per capita. …

the available data for the last century.Our main result is that mortality changes and growth of income per capita account … falling mortality, however, is not enough to overcompensatethe positive eect of falling mortality on population growth. This …

the available data for the last century. Our main result is that mortality changes and growth of income per capita account …, is insufficient to explain the secular decline of population growth. For that interaction of mortality and income growth … endogenous and exogenous. In particular, we find that an increase of fertility reduces growth of income per capita. -- Fertility …