Does emigration really drain human capital accumulation in origin countries? This paper explores a unique household … do not emigrate. Alternative channels (namely remittances, family disruption, and general equilibrium effects at the …

Examines the impact of alternative demographic structures (number and ages of children) on the composition of household … demographic specification which captures household structure for use in macroeconomic-demographic simulation models. The Box and … Cox transformation is utilized to identify Engel curves using macroeconomic household data from the Kenya Urban Household …

population growth via positive effects on fertility particularly in rural areas of developing countries. Population growth then … poverty lead to increases in fertility for two of the three countries examined. The coefficients of natural resource scarcity … were positively related to fertility. In addition, the coefficients of wealth index which measure households' wealth were …