biological and behavioral linkages from fetal development to late life mortality, chronic disease, and disability, though their … interventions; (3) the conditions affecting fertility, family time allocation, and human capital investments; and (4) the …

Sustainability (George Mergos) -- Part 2. Empirical Evidence -- 8. Sub-Saharan Africa: Slow Fertility Transitions Despite Policy … Asia: Did Population Policies Trigger a Fertility Convergence? (Leela Visaria) -- 13. Population Policies in East Asia and …: Low Fertility, Aging, and Migration Policies (Elena Ambrosetti) -- 15. Population Institutions and International …

endogenous fertility and longevity. The first-best solution for a number-dampened total social welfare function, including … preference for the population stock in the social welfare function increases fertility, but reduces individual utility, in the …

OLG model, with endogenous fertility and longevity, the optimal age structure, identified by number-dampened total … exceeds the observed, especially due to a very low fertility. Introducing a preference for the population stock increases the …