and non-poor in the developing world. The author estimates that selective mortality-whereby poorer people tend to have …

non-poor in the developing world. The author estimates that selective mortality-whereby poorer people tend to have higher … death rates-accounts for 10-30 percent of the developing world's trend rate of "$1 a day" poverty reduction in the 1990s …. However, in a neighborhood of plausible estimates, differential fertility-whereby poorer people tend also to have higher birth …

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 …

Sustainability (George Mergos) -- Part 2. Empirical Evidence -- 8. Sub-Saharan Africa: Slow Fertility Transitions Despite Policy … Asia: Did Population Policies Trigger a Fertility Convergence? (Leela Visaria) -- 13. Population Policies in East Asia and …: Low Fertility, Aging, and Migration Policies (Elena Ambrosetti) -- 15. Population Institutions and International …