cycle analysis and demography. The first essay presents insights on U.S. business cycle volatility since 1867 derived from a …

changes. By comparing the scenarios the role of demography in the range of energy demand is quantified. …

This dissertation examines the relationships among measures of mortality, fertility,burden of disease, and … fertility levels; (2) if achild health model provides a stronger indicator of fertility than child mortality alone;and (3) what … indicatorsof fertility change and produce better results than population mortality or socioeconomicfactors alone. Use of health …

John Bongaarts' proximate determinants model of fertility has accounted for over 90 percent of variation in the total … fertility rate (TFR) of primarily developing nations and historical populations. Recently, dramatically low fertility rates …. This study follows Knodel, Chamratrithirong, and Debavalya's 1987 analysis of fertility decline in Thailand by conducting …

Ireland’s relatively late and feeble fertility transition remains poorly-understood. The leading explanations stress … samples from the 1911 census of Ireland to study fertility in Dublin and Belfast. Our larger project aims to use the extensive … literature on the fertility transition elsewhere in Europe to refine and test leading hypotheses in their Irish context. The …

economic development through its impact on productivity, fertility and human capital investment.In the second chapter of this … counteracting disease).In the third chapter of this dissertation, I model the impact of child disease burden on fertility and human … capital investment. The fertility response to a decline in child mortality depends on the morbidity effect of the disease, the …