This paper analyses the relationship between age-specific fertility, mortality and real wages in Sweden during the … demographic transition. We take an overlapping generation’s model of life cycle fertility and fit it to actual Swedish time …-series data over the past two and a half centuries. The model fits the data well, accurately portraying the total fertility …

increase in survival rates, rather than the decline in fertility rates, is the main driving factor behind these fiscal costs …. Fourth, increases in fertility and immigration are not an effective solution to such budget challenges. …

failure that may lead to inefficiently low equilibrium fertility and therefore to a need for government intervention. The …) model with fertility choice and altruism, and model ownership by introducing a minimum constraint on transfers from parents … transfer floor is binding, fertility choices are inefficient. We show how this inefficiency relates to dynamic inefficiency in …

This paper studies the pre-industrial origins of modern-day fertility decline. The setting is in Anhwei Province, China …

the rise in the demand for human capital in the process of development was the main trigger for the decline in fertility …