This article analyzes the effect of public policy intervention in the production of health capital on fertility …, private investment in children's health and education and human capital accumulation. I have used a growth model with … endogenous fertility, in which the usual parental trade-off between the quantity and quality of their children is augmented with …

female health speeds up the demographic transition and thereby the take-off toward sustained economic growth. By contrast …, male health improvements delay the transition and the take-off because ceteris paribus they raise fertility. According to …

growth. By contrast, male health improvements delay the transition and take-off because ceteris paribus they raise fertility …

female health speeds up the demographic transition and thereby the take-off toward sustained economic growth. By contrast …, male health improvements delay the transition and the take-off because ceteris paribus they raise fertility. According to …

(quantity) and amount of nutrition per child (quality). This leads to a theory of pre-industrial growth where body size as well … explaining why income growth does not take hold and societies remain near an endogenously determined subsistence boundary. When …