economic development through its impact on productivity, fertility and human capital investment.In the second chapter of this … counteracting disease).In the third chapter of this dissertation, I model the impact of child disease burden on fertility and human … capital investment. The fertility response to a decline in child mortality depends on the morbidity effect of the disease, the …

fertility and relative wages using a panel estimation method. I also compare the behavioral changes in the labor force …

Over the demographic transition, declining fertility leads to rising support ratios and consumption during the first … fertility falls to preserve the initial gains? Using a new cross-national data set, we estimate that a constant share of life … number of children. We draw from the literature an estimated elasticity of labor productivity with respect to human capital …

drain induces parents to have more high and less low educated children. Under certain conditions fertility may either rise …How do high and low skilled migration affect fertility and human capital in migrants' origin countries? This question … is analyzed within an overlapping generations model where parents choose the number of high and low skilled children they …

overlapping generations model which accounts for endogenous fertility and education. Parents choose the number of children they …This paper analyzes the effects of skilled migration and remittances on fertility decisions at origin. We develop an … want to raise and decide upon how many children obtain higher education. Only high skilled individuals migrate with a …

the change in behavior of fertility rate at business cycle frequencies in the United States between the 1970s and 1990s … and shows how the cyclical and secular properties of fertility can be used to distinguish among several proposed theories … that account for the rise in labor force participation of married mothers. The model, in which households make fertility …

persistence of high fertility in sub-Saharan Africa. Although fertility behaviour depends on multiplicity of factors, childhood … mortality affect fertility are well understood, the empirical evidence has been inconsistent. Thus, the unsettled nature of the … link between childhood mortality and fertility was a major motivation for this study. Methodologically, the paper examines …

stabilization and eventual decline of the population, via fertility at below-replacement levels for an extended period of time …. According to the 2000 census, the total fertility rate (TFR) for China was 1.22—well below 2.1, the replacement level of … fertility. However, the country’s TFR fluctuated spatially with rates of .86, 1.08, and 1.43, for cities, towns, and rural …

more related tothe diminishing willingness to marry than a changing attitude toward fertility. In asetting where …