How do high and low skilled migration affect fertility and human capital in migrants' origin countries? This question … drain induces parents to have more high and less low educated children. Under certain conditions fertility may either rise … found that increased high skilled emigration reduces fertility and fosters human capital accumulation, while low skilled …

family environment. This paper presents a theory of growth in which human capital is determined by inheritable factors and … family size. The distribution of income is shown to affect the number of births, with greater inequality raising the … fertility rates and reducing output growth in the transitional dynamics. If human or physical stocks are sufficiently low, the …

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 …

This paper provides a unified treatment of externalities associated with fertility and human capital accumulation as … deterministically chosen but the children’s future ability is in part stochastic, in part determined by the family background, and in … part through education. In addition to the customary externality source associated with a change in average fertility rate …

trends differed markedly for individuals from different family backgrounds. This paper considers the extent to which trends … across family backgrounds. We first document parallel empirical patterns in pre-college investments, college preparedness … composition of family types over time are also important. Finally, we use our model to show that subsidizing pre …

A large number of pairs of countries exhibit a dynamic pattern in which: (i) Fertility in both countries declines … across time; (ii) Initially one country has higher fertility and lower per-capita income compared to the other; (iii) In time …, as per-capita income converges, fertility rates in the poorer country become lower than in the richer one.This paper …

family environment. This paper presents a theory of growth in which human capital is determined by inheritable factors and … family size. The distribution of income is shown to affect the number of births, with greater inequality raising the … fertility rate and reducing output growth in the transitional dynamics. If human or physical stocks are sufficiently low, the …