panel for 72 countries over the period from 1980 to 2007 and use panel unit-root and cointegration tests to find the causal … find that there are long-term short-term causal links between high income, high human development and low fertility all of …

children’s health. The main result of this paper is that the correlation between economic growth and fertility rates runs in … ; fertility rates …

fertility rates and population growth in various regions of the world, enabling economies to convert a larger share of the …

This paper incorporates the timing of childbearing into a growth model with endogenous fertility. It analyzes a model …

I investigate the effects of declining mortality on economic growth in a model with endogenous fertility and human … steady states and reduced child mortality can cause economically significant changes in parents' fertility and schooling …

This paper explores the evolution of child labor, fertility, and human capital in the process of development. In early … stages of development the economy is in a development trap where child labor is abundant, fertility is high and output per …, thereby inducing parents to substitute child education for child labor and reduce fertility. The economy takes-off to a …

This paper explores the evolution of child labor, fertility, and human capital in the process of development. In early … stages of development the economy is in a development trap where child labor is abundant, fertility is high and output per …, thereby inducing parents to substitute child education for child labor and reduce fertility. The economy takes-off to a …

This paper develops a dynamic general equilibrium model of fertility, human capital accumulation, child labor and … survival probability leads to falling fertility, eventually to investment into schooling and the demise of child labor. Child … generate a demographic transition. Falling mortality can only explain a relatively small part of the fertility decline. A …

Economic and demographic outcomes are determined jointly in a dynamic general equilibrium model of longevity, fertility … different predictions about life expectancy, fertility, timing of births and educational investment depending on initial …