This paper examines the historical evolution of the relationship between population growth, technological change, and …

This paper develops a unified model of growth, population, and technological progress that is consistent with long …-term historical evidence. The economy endogenously evolves through three phases. In the Malthusian regime, population growth is … population, so that output per capita is stable around a constant level. In the post-Malthusian regime, the growth rates of …

relationship between aggregate fertility and household savings. First, we document that parents perceive children as an important … source of old-age support and that in partial equilibrium, increased fertility lowers household savings. Then, we construct … equilibrium effects can substantially overstate the effect of a change in aggregate fertility on households savings. …

Recent analyses of Ireland's marital fertility transition based on the Princeton Ig and the Stanford CPA measures are …

There has been little empirical work evaluating the sensitivity of fertility to financial incentives at the household … female participation and fertility, using individual data from the French Labor Force Survey and a fairly detailed … fertility decisions in France, both for the first and for the third child. As an example, an unconditional child benefit with a …

of Malthus’ (1798) so-called preventive check hypothesis - that fertility rates vary inversely with the price of food …

as a change in the world interest rate. The approach allows for both uncertain individual lifetimes and population growth … unless the sum of the population growth rate and the individual's probability of death equals zero. The government spends on … occur even in well-behaved steady states of the Yaari-Blanchard model, as long as the sum of population growth rate and the …

this is the case, how tax differences affect the growth rates of population and human capital will depend on the relative …