composition of the population, and the associated fertility differential is crucial for understanding the economic and the … demographic transition. In the model, heterogeneous individuals make optimal decisions about fertility, education of their …, and education and fertility decisions delivers a phase transition that replicates stylized facts that previously have been …

transitions. The model captures the intricate interplay between technological progress, mortality, fertility and economic growth … demographic observation that fertility rates response with a delay to lower child mortality. It also identifies a number of … various economic and demographic variables. -- Economic Growth ; Mortality ; Fertility ; Structural Change ; Industrial …

English fertility history is generally regarded as having been composed of two re-gimes: an era of unregulated marital … fertility, from at least 1540 to 1890, then the modern era, with regulated marital fertility, lower for higher social classes …. We show there were in fact three fertility regimes in England: a Malthusian regime which lasted from at least 1500 until …