This is a dataset of vital statistics and cohort component population estimates at a spatially-disaggregated level for … statistics. The population estimates were then derived by the cohort component method. These data provide novel intercensal … population estimates at the county level that will be beneficial for researchers working in historical demography, as well as in …

-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 …

With about five children born per woman and a population growth rate of 2.5 per cent per year, sub-Saharan Africa has … been the world's fastest growing region over the last decade. Economists have often argued that high fertility rates are … mainly driven by women's demand for children (and not by family planning efforts) with low levels of unwanted fertility …