An endogenous growth model with heterogeneous agents and endogenous rates of fertility is developed to study the … relationships between population growth, human capital, migration and economic development. A variety of patterns of migration, from … development. Macroeconomic policy can foster growth by influencing labour mobility through taxation and the provision of public …

An endogenous growth model with heterogeneous agents and endogenous rates of fertility is developed to study the … relationships between population growth, human capital, migration and economic development. A variety of patterns of migration, from … development. Macroeconomic policy can foster growth by influencing labour mobility through taxation and the provision of public …

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 …

fertility rates and reducing output growth in the transitional dynamics. If human or physical stocks are sufficiently low, the … family environment. This paper presents a theory of growth in which human capital is determined by inheritable factors and … model shows that an economy can be caught in a fertility-caused poverty trap, while countries with more resources will …

Do in-cash and in-kind transfers to families affect parental fertility choices and economic welfare differently? We …. We find that cash transfers lead to both higher fertility and welfare if parents strongly value the quantity of their … children. This positive welfare effect dominates an indirect negative welfare effect due to a lower growth rate. But, if …

a no-growth regime to a sustained growth regime and for a positive relationship between fertility and growth to vanish. …We study how economic growth is affected by demographics in an overlapping generations model with a realistic survival …. Endogenous growth arises thanks to the accumulation of generation-specific human capital. Favorable shifts in the survival …

utility by in-kind aid, which also lowers fertility and augments economic growth. … due to a lower growth rate. But, if parents value the quality of their children (health status), they achieve greater …