fertility rates. The present study reveals through both a simulation and real-life set-up that the Bayesian estimation method … has been more promising and reliable in estimating fertility rates, even in situations where age misreporting is higher …

to strictly exogenous. This model is applied to estimate a female participation equation with endogenous fertility and … exogenous fertility movements. The results indicate that assuming the exogeneity of fertility induces a downward bias in … absolute value in the estimated negative effect of fertility on participation, although the failure to account for unobserved …

Conventional R&D-based growth theory suggests that productivity growth is positively correlated with population size or … population growth, an implication which is hard to see in the data. Here we integrate micro-founded fertility and schooling into … future economic growth - when fertility is going to be below replacement level in virtually all fully developed countries …