economy, the role of women for fertility decisions and human capital investments is particularly important. Yet, we believe …

endogenous fertility that address the problem of fiscal redistribution between young and old cohorts in the presence of an aging … population. Linking these issues to the process of economic growth through a simple overlapping generations model, we show that … introduction of Demeny voting) leads in the long run to a higher population growth rate and raises the consumption level of each …

In this document, we consider the effects of a land reform on economic and demographic growth by a family …-optimization model with sharecropping, endogenous fertility and status seeking. We show that tenant farming is the major obstacle to … escaping the Malthusian trap with high fertility and low productivity. A land reform provides peasant families higher returns …

We set up a unified growth model with gender-specific differences in tastes for consumption, fertility, education of … education, and sluggish economic growth towards a state of low fertility, high education, and fast economic growth if the child … child. We then show that female empowerment has the potential to promote the transition from a state of high fertility, low …

Introducing fertility choice into an Ramp;D-based semi-endogenous growth model makes it possible for the economy's long … subsistence fertility level to the model, there may (but may not) emerge an asymptotic balanced growth path with positive growth …-run growth rate to be again fully endogenously determined. A positive growth rate along the balanced growth path requires a …

model of the accidental bequest with endogenous fertility, weanalyze the effects of a decrease in the old-age mortality rate …This paper investigates the relationship between growth and inequality from a demographicpoint of view. In an extended … on the equilibrium growth rateas well as on the income distribution. We show that the relationship between growth …

According to the conventional theory of the demographic transition, mortality decline has represented the major trigger … 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 …

In this document, we consider the effects of a land reform on economic and demographic growth by a family …-optimization model with sharecropping, endogenous fertility and status seeking. We show that tenant farming is the major obstacle to … escaping the Malthusian trap with high fertility and low productivity. A land reform provides peasant families higher returns …

We set up a unified growth model with gender-specific differences in tastes for consumption, fertility, education of … education, and sluggish economic growth towards a state of low fertility, high education, and fast economic growth if the child … child. We then show that female empowerment has the potential to promote the transition from a state of high fertility, low …

According to the conventional theory of the demographic transition, mortality decline has represented the major trigger … 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 …