This paper presents a model of fertility, which is specific for the industrialization that took place during the … research on demographic transition assumed altruism as the main element explaining the increase in fertility rates, this paper …

mechanism that links life expectancy, retirement, education, fertility, and growth. Gains in adult longevity induce agents to … save more for retirement, reduce fertility, invest in education, and achieve sustained growth. Even if the length of …, fertility, education, and income, as well as reconciles the theory that gains in life expectancy trigger a growth takeoff by …

This research develops an evolutionary growth theory that captures the interplay between the evolution of mankind and … economic growth since the emergence of the human species. This uni...ted theory encompasses the observed evolution of … growth. The theory suggests that prolonged economic stagnation prior to the transition to sustained growth stimulated natural …

This paper presents a model of fertility, which is specific for the industrialization that took place during the … research on demographic transition assumed altruism as the main element explaining the increase in fertility rates, this paper …

This paper examines a novel mechanism linking fertility and growth. There are three components to the model. First … transition: a rapid decline in fertility accompanied by accelerated output growth. … to men's. Second, increasing women's relative wages reduces fertility by raising the cost of children more than household …

This paper develops a unified model of growth, population, and technological progress that is consistent with long …-term historical evidence. The economy endogenously evolves through three phases. In the Malthusian regime, population growth is … population, so that output per capita is stable around a constant level. In the post-Malthusian regime, the growth rates of …

This research develops an evolutionary growth theory that captures the interplay between the evolution of mankind and … economic growth since the emergence of the human species. This unified theory encompasses the observed evolution of population …, technology and income per capita in the long transition from an epoch of Malthusian stagnation to sustained economic growth. The …

This Paper develops a theory of fertility and child educational choice that offers an explanation for the persistence … human capital. As a result, the poor choose high fertility rates with low education investment and therefore, their … offspring are poor as well. Furthermore, the high fertility rates in poor economies dilute physical capital accumulation and …

This paper examines the historical evolution of the relationship between population growth, technological change, and … the ``Modern Growth Regime". We view the unified modeling of this long transition process - from thousand of years of … Malthusian stagnation through the demographic transition to modern growth - as one of the most significant research challenges …

This paper investigates the role of childcare provided by grandparents for the fertility decisions of their offspring …-bearing years increases by about five percent the number of children. We show that the fertility effects of delayed retirement are … lowest low fertility we conclude that pension reforms may have had unintended inter-generational effects. This conclusion is …