economic development through its impact on productivity, fertility and human capital investment.In the second chapter of this … counteracting disease).In the third chapter of this dissertation, I model the impact of child disease burden on fertility and human … capital investment. The fertility response to a decline in child mortality depends on the morbidity effect of the disease, the …

John Bongaarts' proximate determinants model of fertility has accounted for over 90 percent of variation in the total … fertility rate (TFR) of primarily developing nations and historical populations. Recently, dramatically low fertility rates …. This study follows Knodel, Chamratrithirong, and Debavalya's 1987 analysis of fertility decline in Thailand by conducting …

cycle analysis and demography. The first essay presents insights on U.S. business cycle volatility since 1867 derived from a …

agricultural pursuits, percent of the population in urban areas, the country's fertility rate, the primary school enrollment rate …

changes. By comparing the scenarios the role of demography in the range of energy demand is quantified. …