Much of Africa has not yet gone through a quot;demographic transitionquot; to reduced mortality and fertility rates …. The fact that the continent's countries remain mired in a Malthusian crisis of high mortality, high fertility, and rapid …, econometric estimation is complicated by endogeneity among fertility and other variables of interest. We attempt to improve …

environments characterized by fixed resources, endogenous fertility, and full information. Individuals in our environment are fully … et al. (2007). We also show that efficient allocation in the endogenous fertility case differs significantly from its … exogenous fertility counterpart. In particular, optimal steady state population is proportional to the amount of fixed resources …

decline on demographic and economic growth by a family-optimization model, in which fertility is endogenous and wealth yields … population growth, but the desire of status hampers fertility and prevents capital-diluting demographic expansion. If status …