This paper looks at the fertility and mortality experience of racial and ethnic groups in the United States from the … demographic behavior. There has been both absolute and relative convergence of fertility across groups. It has been of relatively …

rates could be lowered by policies that reduce the inequality in these health resources across states …

U.S. fertility rose from a low of 2.27 children for women born in 1908 to a peak of 3.21 children for women born in … propose a novel explanation for this boom-bust pattern, linking it to the huge improvements in maternal health that started in … the mid 1930s. Our hypothesis is that the improvements in maternal health contributed to the mid-twentieth century baby …

not only on the environment, which from the standpoint of human health and prosperity has become much more favorable than …

`long' nineteenth century. The fertility transition was early (dating from at least 1800) and from very high levels. The … levels were moderate, and death rates began their sustained decline only by the 1870s, long after the fertility transition … or accompanies the fertility transition. Internal migration in the United States was also distinctive. Over most of the …

It is the main purpose of this paper to examine in detail the pattern of fertility fluctuations in the United States … since the Second World War and to define, with some precision, the questions these patterns raise for students of fertility …

Transitions from high mortality and fertility to low mortality and fertility can be beneficial to economies as large … the positive effects of demographic change during 1960-95. We also show how Ireland benefited from lower fertility in the …

youth cohort size. Finally, due to recent declines in fertility, some European countries will see reductions in the size of …

effect of this large working-age population and health, family, labor, financial, and human capital policies can create …, combined with reduced fertility and increases in the working-age population, have contributed to economic growth in some areas …