also casts doubts on recent findings about a positive effect of health on education. This is because health raises the … that longevity and health have had a minor effect, if any, on the transition from stagnation to growth via investment in …

in fertility levels. Changes in union formation and fertility levels, on the other hand, do have a significant impact on …

a gender wage gap, associated with lower female labour force participation rates and higher fertility. This paper … presents a growth model where saving, fertility and labour market participation are endogenously determined, and there is wage … through an increase in fertility. We find that for several countries a large fraction of the actual difference in output per …

fertility, and lower investment in physical and human capital. Furthermore, the feedback effect from economic prosperity to … better health care implies that mortality could be the source of a poverty trap. In our regressions, adult mortality explains …

shown that a substantial number of couples used birth control for 'spacing' as well as 'stopping' fertility. Moreover … good. In general the results obtained do not fit with the 'Princeton' view of the European fertility transition, with its …

dependency ratio driven by changes in fertility and longevity. For the former the smoothing argument may be appropriate, but not …

This paper attempts to disentangle the direct effects of experience from those of culture in determining fertility. We … use the GSS to examine the fertility of women born in the US but from different ethnic backgrounds. We take lagged values … of the total fertility rate in woman’s country of ancestry as the cultural proxy and use the woman’s number of siblings …

This paper examines a novel mechanism linking fertility and growth. There are three components to the model. First … to men's. Second, increasing women's relative wages reduces fertility by raising the cost of children more than household … income. Third, lower fertility raises the level of capital per worker. This positive feedback loop generates a demographic …

We investigate the role of grandparental childcare for fertility decisions of their offspring. Exploiting pension … arrangements, investment in education or labor supply. Given the Italian lowest low fertility, we conclude that pension reforms may …