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 …

, fertility and children’s living circumstances during 1990-2014. On average, trade shocks differentially reduce employment and … reduce marriage and fertility. Consistent with prominent sociological accounts, these shocks heighten male idleness and … premature mortality, and raise the share of mothers who are unwed and the share of children living in below-poverty, single …

, fertility and children's living circumstances during 1990-2014. On average, trade shocks differentially reduce employment and … reduce marriage and fertility. Consistent with prominent sociological accounts, these shocks heighten male idleness and … premature mortality, and raise the share of mothers who are unwed and the share of children living in below-poverty, single …

transitions. The model captures the intricate interplay between technological progress, mortality, fertility and economic growth …This study provides a unified growth theory to correctly predict the initially negative and subsequently positive … relationship between child mortality and net reproduction observed in industrialized countries over the course of their demographic …

transitions. The model captures the intricate interplay between technological progress, mortality, fertility and economic growth … demographic observation that fertility rates response with a delay to lower child mortality. It also identi es a number of turning …This study provides a uni ed growth theory to correctly predict the initially negative and subsequently positive …

We document increased old-age mortality rates among Swedish twin mothers compared to non-twin mothers. Results are … based on administrative data on mortality for the years 1990 to 2010. We argue that twins are an unplanned shock to … fertility in the cohorts of older women considered. Deaths due to lung cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and heart …

administrative vital statistics, we find that birth control clinics accounted for 5.0–7.8% of the overall fertility decline until … infant mortality. The effect of birth control clinics on puerperal deaths is consistently negative, yet insignificant …

administrative vital statistics, we find that birth control clinics accounted for 5.0–7.8% of the overall fertility decline until … infant mortality. The effect of birth control clinics on puerperal deaths is consistently negative, yet insignificant …

-tiered demographic system. A group of insiders were able to marry, and experienced both high marital fertility and high infant and child … mortality. A second group of outsiders were prevented from marrying. Many, especially the males, left the community; those who … stayed contributed to growing illegitimacy and associated levels of infant and child mortality that were even higher than for …

changes and assesses the possible consequences of the changing fertility and mortality patterns. Much remains unknown about … demographic transformation in the past twenty years. On many dimensions of fertility and family formation, much of the region now … looks like Western Europe-below-replacement fertility rates, rising age at first marriage and first birth, and high and …