This article examines pollution and environmental mortality in an economy where fertility is endogenous and output is … pollution-induced mortality but also shifts resources to the clean sector. If the dirty sector is more capital intensive, then … decreasing fertility and the population size. Correspondingly, if the clean sector is more capital intensive, then the emission …

In this document, we consider the effects of a land reform on economic and demographic growth by a family …-optimization model with sharecropping, endogenous fertility and status seeking. We show that tenant farming is the major obstacle to … escaping the Malthusian trap with high fertility and low productivity. A land reform provides peasant families higher returns …

model of the accidental bequest with endogenous fertility, weanalyze the effects of a decrease in the old-age mortality rate …This paper investigates the relationship between growth and inequality from a demographicpoint of view. In an extended … on the equilibrium growth rateas well as on the income distribution. We show that the relationship between growth …

In this document, we consider the effects of a land reform on economic and demographic growth by a family …-optimization model with sharecropping, endogenous fertility and status seeking. We show that tenant farming is the major obstacle to … escaping the Malthusian trap with high fertility and low productivity. A land reform provides peasant families higher returns …

China’s fertility decline was very fast. However, what has driven this decline is controversial. The common wisdom … attributes it to the strict population control policies. Yet, fertility might also decline because of the spectacular economic … transformation and substantial mortality decline. To quantify the effects of different factors on China’s demographic and economic …

mortality, fertility rate and female education. We show that reduction in child mortality is best predicted by the level of GDP … in a country over the preceding 5 years. Fertility rate decreases when current or predicted child mortality is low, and … is weakly dependent on female education and economic growth. As fertility drops, GDP increases producing a cycle that …

mortality are important determinants of fertility decline, while per-capita GDP has probably worked in the opposite direction …This paper studies the dynamics of fertility in 180 countries in the period 1950ñ 2015 and investigates the … determinants of the onset of fertility transitions. The application of Phillips and Sulís (2007) test to fertility rates provides …

Fertility in the United States rose from a low of 2.27 children for women born in 1908 to a peak of 3.21 children for …-twentieth century baby boom and generated a rise in women’s human capital, ultimately leading to a decline in desired fertility for … in pregnancy-related mortality and the differential exposure by cohort. We find that the decline in maternal mortality is …

Much of Africa has yet to go through a demographic transition; this Malthusian crisis of high mortality, high fertility … to improve estimation of the effect of the child mortality variable on fertility by deploying exogenous variation in the … ecology of malaria transmission. Results show that child mortality is a powerfully robust driver of fertility behavior …