We present three conditions for a demography-driven middle-income trap and show that many economies in East, South, and … Southeast Asia satisfy all of them. The conditions are (1) support ratio - the ratio of workers to consumers - matters for … economic growth, (2) economic development accompanies more investment in human capital and lower fertility due to the quantity …

In most western societies, marital fertility began to decline in the nineteenth century. But in Ireland, fertility in … marriage remained stubbornly high into the twentieth century. Explanations of Ireland's late entry to the fertility transition … Irish outside of Ireland behaved the same way. This paper investigates these claims by examining the marital fertility of …

Ireland's relatively late and feeble fertility transition remains poorly-understood. The leading explanations stress … samples from the 1911 census of Ireland to study fertility in Dublin and Belfast. Our larger project aims to use the extensive … literature on the fertility transition elsewhere in Europe to refine and test leading hypotheses in their Irish context. The …

population growth, an implication which is hard to see in the data. Here we integrate micro-founded fertility and schooling into … future economic growth - when fertility is going to be below replacement level in virtually all fully developed countries …

This study investigates the general equilibrium effects of a fertility shock under different intergenerational transfer … different tax schemes. The economic effects of a fertility shock vary substantially with different intergenerational transfer … the effects from a fertility shock it is vital that the effects on human capital are minimized. For a baby boom shock this …