family environment. This paper presents a theory of growth in which human capital is determined by inheritable factors and … family size. The distribution of income is shown to affect the number of births, with greater inequality raising the … fertility rates and reducing output growth in the transitional dynamics. If human or physical stocks are sufficiently low, the …

We present a dynamic lifecycle model of women's choices with respect to partnership status, labour supply and fertility … indicate that uncertainty about a partner's abusive type creates incentives for women to delay fertility, reduce fertility … abuse, both income support and subsidized childcare fail to do so because they encourage early fertility. Income support …