The demographic transition the move from a high fertility/high mortality regime into a low fertility/low mortality … and increasing speed of transitions. It also produces a strong correlation between the speeds of fertility transition and …

sex ratio in World War II contributed to a lower decline in fertility and child mortality rates in postwar Japan. In … particular, the fertility rate would have fallen by an additional 12% and the child mortality rate by an additional 13% between …

female labour market participation, which is in turn related to fertility reduction. Lastly we find that more rapid urban … growth accelerates fertility decline, but, in late 19th century Britain it slowed the reduction of infant mortality …

consumer optimization model that incorporates endogenous fertility as well as endogenous education and health investments. The … model shows that a fertility decline induces higher education and health investments that are able to compensate for …It is widely argued that declining fertility slows the pace of economic growth in industrialized countries through its …

rounds of the Demographic and Health Surveys that link an individual woman's fertility outcomes to her HIV status based on …The historical pattern of the demographic transition suggests that fertility declines follow mortality declines … responses in fertility will reinforce this decline by reducing the willingness to engage in unprotected sex. We utilize recent …

, we find that this population effect results from both a positive effect on fertility and a negative effect on infant and …

-optimization model with sharecropping, endogenous fertility and status seeking. We show that tenant farming is the major obstacle to … escaping the Malthusian trap with high fertility and low productivity. A land reform provides peasant families higher returns … decreases fertility and increases productivity in agriculture in the short and long runs. The European demographic history …

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

social security and endogenous retirement and fertility decisions. It demonstrates that neither fertility nor retirement … fertility and the elderly labor supply in the economy as a whole. It shows that governments can realize the first …