Die großen Städte Deutschlands gewinnen sowohl als Wohnorte als auch als Unternehmensstandorte mehr und mehr an Attraktivität. Die Einwohnerzahlen sind zwischen 1999 und 2008 um fast drei Prozent gestiegen, während die Bevölkerung Deutschlands insgesamt leicht schrumpfte. Ähnlich ist die...

Do populations grow as countries become richer? In this paper we estimate the effects on population growth of shocks to national income that are plausibly exogenous and unlikely to be driven by technological change. For a panel of over 139 countries spanning the period 1960-2007 we interact...

With about five children born per woman and a population growth rate of 2.5 per cent per year, sub-Saharan Africa has been the world's fastest growing region over the last decade. Economists have often argued that high fertility rates are mainly driven by women's demand for children (and not by...

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...