unmarried women, thereby delaying female marriage, lowering fertility, and unleashing economic growth. We show that this …

model of the accidental bequest with endogenous fertility, weanalyze the effects of a decrease in the old-age mortality rate …

income. As a consequence parentsreduce fertility and increase the amount of intergenerational transfers. Wealthier households …,who have ceteris paribus more offsprings, adjust their fertility decision by a greater magnitude.Therefore a persistent fall in … evidence we solve the Barro-Becker model of fertility in a setup with aggregate and idiosyncratic shocks to labour income …

We develop a new theoretical link between inequality and growth. In our model, fertility and education decisions are … distribution increases the fertility differential between the rich and the poor, which implies thatmore weight gets placed on …. We find that this fertility-differential effect accounts for most of the empirical relationship between inequality and …

We develop a new theoretical link between inequality and growth. In our model, fertility and education decisions are … distribution increases the fertility differential between the rich and the poor, which implies that more weight gets placed on …. We find that this fertility-differential effect accounts for most of the empirical relationship between inequality and …

This research studies the extent of asymmetric responses of general fertility rate with financial development and … distributed lag methodologies. Our study identifies a long run stable equilibrium among fertility rate, financial development and … income inequality under assumptions of symmetric and asymmetric relationships between fertility and each of the control …

individuals' education and fertility decisions depend on their life expectancy. The theory predicts that before the demographic …