Ashraf, Quamrul; Weil, David; Wilde, Joshua - Economics Department, Williams College - 2011
We assess quantitatively the effect of exogenous reductions in fertility on output per capita. Our simulation model … allows for effects that run through schooling, the size and age structure of the population, capital accumulation, parental … change in fertility from the UN medium-variant to the UN low-variant projection in Nigeria. For a base case set of parameters …