This paper develops a theory of optimal fertility behavior under mortality shocks. In a 3- periods OLG model, young … shocks raise fertility due to insurance and life-cycle mechanisms respectively. In general equilibrium, adult mortality … shocks give rise to price effects (notably through rising wages) lowering fertility, in contrast to child mortality shocks …

A central policy issue in the battle against HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is whether and when high … equilibrium growth model with endogenous fertility and endogenous longevity under the threat of a deadly enduring infectious … disease, as is the case of HIV/AIDS in SSA. Second, it aims to shed light on the interplay between foreign aid and endogenous …

This paper studies the link between crime and fertility and the way by which they jointly impact on economic growth. In … offenders face in escaping apprehension, increases both crime and fertility non-monotonically, giving rise to an ambiguous …-linear effects on both crime and fertility. At the same time, it reveals a negative effect on output growth. …

mortality. We find some evidence of community rebuilding and replacement fertility, but the net long-term effect is fertility …This paper studies the effect of the 1918-19 influenza pandemic on fertility using a historical dataset from Sweden …. Our results suggest an immediate reduction in fertility driven by morbidity, and additional behavioral effects driven by …

for fertility decline and eventually sustained economic development. In Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), the HIV/AIDS epidemic … has had a devastating impact on mortality, by dramatically reversing, in high HIV-prevalence countries, the long … severe HIV epidemics, there seems to be little concern amongst international policy makers about the ultimate impact that HIV …

for fertility decline and eventually sustained economic development. In Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), the HIV/AIDS epidemic … has had a devastating impact on mortality, by dramatically reversing, in high HIV-prevalence countries, the long … severe HIV epidemics, there seems to be little concern amongst international policy makers, about the ultimate impact that …

mortality. We find some evidence of community rebuilding and replacement fertility, but the net long-term effect is fertility …This paper studies the effect of the 1918–19 influenza pandemic on fertility using a historical dataset from Sweden …. Our results suggest an immediate reduction in fertility driven by morbidity, and additional behavioral effects driven by …

mortality. We find some evidence of community rebuilding and replacement fertility, but the net long-term effect is fertility …This paper studies the effect of the 1918-19 influenza pandemic on fertility using a historical dataset from Sweden …. Our results suggest an immediate reduction in fertility driven by morbidity, and additional behavioral effects driven by …

Since World War II, mortality has declined in the developing world. This paper examines the effects of this mortality … decline on demographic and economic growth by a family-optimization model, in which fertility is endogenous and wealth yields … utility through its status. The decline in mortality stimulates investment and generates an income stream which promotes …

This article examines pollution and environmental mortality in an economy where fertility is endogenous and output is … pollution-induced mortality but also shifts resources to the clean sector. If the dirty sector is more capital intensive, then … decreasing fertility and the population size. Correspondingly, if the clean sector is more capital intensive, then the emission …