This article examines pollution and environmental mortality in an economy where fertility is endogenous and output is … pollution-induced mortality but also shifts resources to the clean sector. If the dirty sector is more capital intensive, then … decreasing fertility and the population size. Correspondingly, if the clean sector is more capital intensive, then the emission …

unmarried women, thereby delaying female marriage, lowering fertility, and unleashing economic growth. We show that this …

suggest that these impacts were also observed when considering maternal mortality, though effects are less precisely estimated. …

mortality are important determinants of fertility decline, while per-capita GDP has probably worked in the opposite direction …This paper studies the dynamics of fertility in 180 countries in the period 1950ñ 2015 and investigates the … determinants of the onset of fertility transitions. The application of Phillips and Sulís (2007) test to fertility rates provides …

mortality. We find some evidence of community rebuilding and replacement fertility, but the net long-term effect is fertility …This paper studies the effect of the 1918-19 influenza pandemic on fertility using a historical dataset from Sweden …. Our results suggest an immediate reduction in fertility driven by morbidity, and additional behavioral effects driven by …

Fertility in the United States rose from a low of 2.27 children for women born in 1908 to a peak of 3.21 children for …-twentieth century baby boom and generated a rise in women’s human capital, ultimately leading to a decline in desired fertility for … in pregnancy-related mortality and the differential exposure by cohort. We find that the decline in maternal mortality is …

This article examines pollution and environmental mortality in an economy where fertility is endogenous and output is … pollution-induced mortality but also shifts resources to the clean sector. If the dirty sector is more capital intensive, then … decreasing fertility and the population size. Correspondingly, if the clean sector is more capital intensive, then the emission …

Economic and demographic outcomes are determined jointly in a choice-theoretic model of fertility, mortality and …

, and find a positive and statistically significant effect of the threat of violent death on the fertility rate. Countries … characterised by a high murder rate have a high fertility rate. Apparently, there is an instinctive pattern to be found in our …

introduction of the smallpox vaccine in Sweden to identify the causal effect of early-life mortality on fertility. Our analysis … shows that parishes in counties with higher levels of smallpox mortality prior to the introduction of vaccination … experienced greater declines in infant mortality afterwards. Exploiting this finding in an instrumental-variable approach reveals …