We set up a unified growth model with gender-specific differences in tastes for consumption, fertility, education of … child. We then show that female empowerment has the potential to promote the transition from a state of high fertility, low … education, and sluggish economic growth towards a state of low fertility, high education, and fast economic growth if the child …

nutrition of their offspring. In this setting we demonstrate that relatively high metabolic costs of fertility, which may have …

Conventional R&D-based growth theory argues that productivity growth is driven by population growth but the data … suggest that the erstwhile positive correlation between population and productivity turned negative during the 20th century …-founded fertility and schooling behavior. The model explains the historical emergence of R&D-based growth and the subsequent emergence …

nutrition of their offspring. In this setting we demonstrate that relatively high metabolic costs of fertility, which may have …

We set up a unified growth model with gender-specific differences in tastes for consumption, fertility, education of … child. We then show that female empowerment has the potential to promote the transition from a state of high fertility, low … education, and sluggish economic growth towards a state of low fertility, high education, and fast economic growth if the child …

retirement ages ("normal" and "early") and find that the health of workers in low status occupations benefits greatly from …