and the transition to modern growth. -- demographic transition ; gender gap ; human capital ; fertility ; mortality … the rise in the demand for human capital in the process of development was the main trigger for the decline in fertility …

This paper develops a link between four central components of the demographic transition: survival rates; fertility … survival is found to reduce the fertility rate and altruistic transfers, and thereby increase the savings rate and the …

and non-poor in the developing world. The author estimates that selective mortality-whereby poorer people tend to have …