fertility and greater parental investment in children; (ii) a rise in married female labor-force participation; (iii) a …

fertility and greater parental investment in children; (ii) a rise in married female labor-force participation; (iii) a decline …

at 1.4 million, while military losses are estimated at 1.4 million too. Thus, the fertility decline doubled the … demographic impact of the war. I construct a model of fertility choices where a household faces three shocks in a war: (i) an … fertility before the war. I use military casualties and income data to calibrate the war. The model accounts for 91% of the …

consistent with the observed acceleration in world population, which cannot be explained solely by declining fertility à la …

investigates, quantitatively, its effect on the westward movement of population and the regional and secular changes in fertility … optimal growth model with endogenous fertility and migration is calibrated, and counterfactual experiments reveal that the …

fertility and greater parental investment in children; (ii) a rise in married female labor-force participation; (iii) a decline …

equilibrium response, in a life-cycle matching model, of marriage hazards to war-time fertility and male-mortality shocks. Our …

developed with three ingredients: endogenous fertility, investment in land, and migration. The secular decline in fertility is … driven by the rise in real wages. The relative abundance of land in the West promotes higher fertility. The model is … simulated to see whether it can match the time-series decomposition of population growth between migration and fertility. It can …