We set up a unified growth model with gender-specific differences in tastes for consumption, fertility, education of … education, and sluggish economic growth towards a state of low fertility, high education, and fast economic growth if the child … child. We then show that female empowerment has the potential to promote the transition from a state of high fertility, low …

children’s health. The main result of this paper is that the correlation between economic growth and fertility rates runs in … ; fertility rates …

We set up a unified growth model with gender-specific differences in tastes for consumption, fertility, education of … education, and sluggish economic growth towards a state of low fertility, high education, and fast economic growth if the child … child. We then show that female empowerment has the potential to promote the transition from a state of high fertility, low …

This paper develops a unified model of growth, population, and technological progress that is consistent with long …-term historical evidence. The economy endogenously evolves through three phases. In the Malthusian regime, population growth is … population, so that output per capita is stable around a constant level. In the post-Malthusian regime, the growth rates of …

particularly relevant to policies for dealing with the gender pay gap and below-replacement fertility rates, both thought to be …

This paper tests the effects of fertility on household structure and parental labor supply in rural China. To solve the … ordinary least squares estimates show a negative correlation between fertility and parental labor supply. Using twinning as a … natural experiment, we do not find evidence on the negative effects of fertility on parental labor supply. By contrast, we …

among the decisions on marriage, fertility and divorce. …

fetuses. We investigate their impact on son-biased fertility stopping behavior, parental investments in girls relative to boys …, and the relative chances of girls surviving after birth. We find a moderation of son-biased fertility, erosion of gender …