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

Motivated by the increasing literature on endogenous preferences as well as on endogenous fertility, this paper … higher savings, and more interestingly, always increase the neoclassical economic growth. …

Motivated by the increasing literature on endogenous preferences as well as on endogenous fertility, this paper … higher savings, and more interestingly, always increase the neoclassical economic growth. …

This article studies the impact of education and fertility in structural transformation and growth. In the model there … important in explaining its stagnation (growth) after 1980. We also analyze how different government policies towards education … and child labor implemented in these countries affected individuals’ decisions toward education and the growth trajectory …

Empirically, growth rates are negatively correlated with birth rates; they are also correlated with production risk. We …

China’s fertility decline was very fast. However, what has driven this decline is controversial. The common wisdom … attributes it to the strict population control policies. Yet, fertility might also decline because of the spectacular economic … transformation and substantial mortality decline. To quantify the effects of different factors on China’s demographic and economic …

, sexual difference, and fertility choice. Our model could explain the joint evolution of production structure, household time … allocation, and fertility broadly observed in the 19th and 20th centuries in the Western world as part of a single process of … increased in the latter half of the 20th century, and (iii) there has been the secular decline in fertility over the last 200 …

capital, endogenous fertility and positive spillovers from average human capital. Such spillovers reduce human capital … investment but raise fertility from their social optimum. We first characterize the social optimum with a non-convex feasible set …

the growth rate of an economy. The non-monotonic effect of fertility on human capital appears to be valid for OECD, as … consequences of higher fertility (birth rate) on per-capita human capital accumulation (the so-called dilution effect) are not the … same (in sign and magnitude) across different groups of countries with different birth rates, we analyze the growth impact …

effect that fertility plays on human capital accumulation, and hence on economic growth. The non-monotonic effect of …This paper investigates the relationship between per capita human capital investment and the fertility rate. In the … on how fertility directly affects per capita human capital accumulation. The results obtained in this model are then …