This edited collection explores the links between human capital (both in the form of health and in the form of education), demographic change, and economic growth. Using empirical as well as theoretical perspectives, the authors investigate several important issues in the context of human...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: The Impact of Race and Inequality on Human Capital Formation in Latin America during the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries -- Chapter 3: Education and Inequality in North America in the Long Term with Special Reference to the United States -- Chapter 4:...

Migration and reproduction : basic premises -- International migration in neoclassical economics : a critical perspective -- Migration and development : three theses and a corollary -- Migration and reproduction : beyond the critique of methodological nationalism -- The role of migration in the...

This handbook presents a timely and comprehensive overview of theory, data, methods and research findings that connect human population dynamics and environmental context. It presents regional summaries of empirical findings on migration and environmental connections and summarizes environmental...

Many developing countries depend crucially on open-access renewable natural resources (NR). Trade is generally viewed as hurting the long-term health of NR in commodity-exporting countries. I examine whether trade might be beneficial in the case of population growth. Dynamic general equilibrium...

The availability and composition of labor is fundamental for the structure of international trade. This points towards the importance of demographic transitions that affect trade through, for example, changing capital-labor ratios, urbanization dynamics, or changes in the composition of demand...