Herzer, Dierk; Strulik, Holger; Vollmer, Sebastian - 2010 - This version: October 2010
We examine the long-run relationship between fertility, mortality, and income using panel cointegration techniques and … the available data for the last century. Our main result is that mortality changes and growth of income per capita account … for a major part of the fertility change characterizing the demographic transition. The change of mortality alone, however …
