decline on demographic and economic growth by a family-optimization model, in which fertility is endogenous and wealth yields … population growth, but the desire of status hampers fertility and prevents capital-diluting demographic expansion. If status …-seeking is strong, then the decline of mortality decreases population growth below its original level. -- mortality ; population …

This article examines pollution and environmental mortality in an economy where fertility is endogenous and output is … pollution-induced mortality but also shifts resources to the clean sector. If the dirty sector is more capital intensive, then … decreasing fertility and the population size. Correspondingly, if the clean sector is more capital intensive, then the emission …

endogenous fertility that address the problem of fiscal redistribution between young and old cohorts in the presence of an aging … population. Linking these issues to the process of economic growth through a simple overlapping generations model, we show that … introduction of Demeny voting) leads in the long run to a higher population growth rate and raises the consumption level of each …

growth for the transitional dynamics. We find that i) higher survival induces economic growth through higher savings and … higherlabor force participation; ii) longevity-induced reductions in fertility hampereconomic development; iii) the positive life … expectancy effects of larger savingsand higher labor force participation outweigh the negative effect of a reductionin fertility …

According to the conventional theory of the demographic transition, mortality decline has represented the major trigger … for fertility decline and eventually sustained economic development. In Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), the HIV/AIDS epidemic … has had a devastating impact on mortality, by dramatically reversing, in high HIV-prevalence countries, the long …

economy, the role of women for fertility decisions and human capital investments is particularly important. Yet, we believe …

In this document, we consider the effects of a land reform on economic and demographic growth by a family …-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 …

We set up a unified growth model with gender-specific differences in tastes for consumption, fertility, education of … education, and sluggish economic growth towards a state of low fertility, high education, and fast economic growth if the child … child. We then show that female empowerment has the potential to promote the transition from a state of high fertility, low …

administrative vital statistics, we find that birth control clinics accounted for 5.0-7.8% of the overall fertility decline until … infant mortality. The effect of birth control clinics on puerperal deaths is consistently negative, yet insignificant …

administrative vital statistics, we find that birth control clinics accounted for 5.0-7.8% of the overall fertility decline until … infant mortality. The effect of birth control clinics on puerperal deaths is consistently negative, yet insignificant …