transitions. The model captures the intricate interplay between technological progress, mortality, fertility and economic growth … demographic observation that fertility rates response with a delay to lower child mortality. It also identifies a number of … various economic and demographic variables. -- Economic Growth ; Mortality ; Fertility ; Structural Change ; Industrial …

Since the seminal work of Becker, the dynamics of endogenous fertility has been based on the trade-off faced by parents … upstream, so as to keep fertility endogenous. We do that by adding a negative "sibship size effect" on human capital formation …, the possibility of a jump from a state with high fertility and low income to a state with low fertility and high income …

This paper develops a dynamic general equilibrium model of fertility, human capital accumulation, child labor and … survival probability leads to falling fertility, eventually to investment into schooling and the demise of child labor. Child … generate a demographic transition. Falling mortality can only explain a relatively small part of the fertility decline. A …

multicultural public schools to private education increases private educational expenditures and, as a result, decreases fertility … society. -- public education ; private education ; integration ; fertility ; human capital …

We use an econometric model of fertility and children’s activities to examine the causal effects of fertility on a … child’s activities taking the endogeneity of fertility into account. Our specification is nonlinear and simultaneous and … uses latent factors to allow for unobserved influences on fertility to affect a child’s activities. We apply maximum …

-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 productivity. A land reform provides peasant families higher returns … decreases fertility and increases productivity in agriculture in the short and long runs. The European demographic history …

-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 productivity. A land reform provides peasant families higher returns … decreases fertility and increases productivity in agriculture in the short and long runs. The European demographic history …

This paper reviews Gary Becker's contributions to the economic analysis of fertility, from his 1960 paper introducing … the quantity-quality tradeoff to later work linking the economics of fertility to the theory of economic growth. …

fertility, both desired and realized, as a central pathway through which the relationship has been historically theorized and … independently from fertility decline. Finally, we assess the state and quality of evidence of these relationships and propose …

plausibly exogenous source of variation in early industrialization across regions of nineteenth-century Prussia, capital …