I show how the influences of unskilled immigration, differential fertility between immigrants and the local indigenous … transfers. For the economy at large, high-fertility unskilled immigrants and a low-fertility indigenous population result in …

multicultural public schools to private education increases private educational expenditures and, as a result, decreases fertility …

We study how endowments, investments and fertility interact to produce human capital in childhood. We begin by …

This paper develops a dynamic general equilibrium model of fertility, human capital accumulation, child labor and … survival probability leads to falling fertility, eventually to investment into schooling and the demise of child labor. Child … generate a demographic transition. Falling mortality can only explain a relatively small part of the fertility decline. A …

Fertility rates have been falling persistently over the past 50 years in most developed countries around the world … negative effect of decreasing fertility on the aggregate human capital stock of a country is compensated for by increasing … education and health investments - both of which raise individual human capital. We find that declining fertility is not fully …

fertility in explaining the generosity of redistribution and education policies in the U.S. Policies are endogenised as outcomes … of majority voting. I find that accounting for endogenous fertility is essential for strong performance of the model in … cross-section of U.S. states are used to verify the plausibility of fertility decision responses to policies and …