; the relation between income growth and income and fertility distributions; and the relevance of human capital in …, knowledge spillover effects play a key role. The analysis offers new insights for understanding the decline in fertility below … population replacement rate in many developed countries; the evolution of income and fertility distributions across developing …

distribution of income. We develop and parametrize a dynamic model of the world economy with endogenous migration, fertility and …

-region growth model with endogenous fertility, in which public knowledge spillovers from the more advanced core into children …

Fertility rates have been falling persistently over the past 50 years in most developed countries around the world … negative effect of decreasing fertility on the aggregate human capital stock of a country is compensated for by increasing … education and health investments - both of which raise individual human capital. We find that declining fertility is not fully …

While high fertility persists in the poorest countries and fertility declines with per capita income in developing … countries, fertility and per capita income are now positively associated across most developed countries. This paper presents a … model where a Ushaped relationship between overall fertility and per capita income reflects within country differences in …