endowed with full control over their fertility but, differently from other studies, the degree of agents' altruism which … mainly affects fertility choices are allowed to change with the standard of living. We relate agents' altruism to the …

decline in fertility of about 15 percent in the program villages compared with the control villages by 1982, as others have … estimated in addition to fertility: women's health, earnings and household assets, use of preventive health inputs, and finally … fertility and child mortality. This suggests social returns to this reproductive health program in rural South Asia have many …

alternative world fertility rates would have on international capital markets and living standards. Notable features of the model …

accounting for two processes of spatial interdependence in an open subnational demo-economic system: diffusion of fertility norms … interdependencies is necessary to avoid model misspecifications. Moreover, the models lead to space-time landscapes of fertility …

Falling rates of fertility in many countries have led to concerns that low fertility is a threat to future living … demographic change. These simulations show that reduced fertility would actually increase living standards, albeit by a small … amount. We also present projections of government social outlays. These projections suggest that reductions in fertility will …