fertility rates and reducing output growth in the transitional dynamics. If human or physical stocks are sufficiently low, the … model shows that an economy can be caught in a fertility-caused poverty trap, while countries with more resources will …

growth. The analysis is performed in a two-country growth model with endogenous fertility, in which congestion diseconomies … are incorporated. The model shows that out-migration increases fertility and reduces human capital in the source economy …. At the same time, in-migration reduces fertility and can increase or decrease the average level of human capital in the …

combination of purchased and own care, the effect of income on fertility is ambiguous, even if quantity of children is a normal … income effect on fertility is positive when quantity is a normal good. (iii) If, on the other hand, there only is own care …, there is a different kind of quantity quality trade off. The income effect on fertility is positive if quantity is a closer …

The economic theory of fertility choice builds predominantly on the unitary model of the household, in which there is a … bear on fertility choice, and we point out promising future directions for this line of research. …

children's fertility. We use representative panel data from Germany to link observations on parents and adult children. We … retirement affects only the timing of adult children's fertility, without having an effect on total fertility. …