Fertility and Economy

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the relationship between intergenerational dynamics and politics outcomes in several distinct contexts and found that political traits are significant determinants of fertility in some cases.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied the effect of the sex ratio on couples' age and education gaps using data from multiple national surveys from 1984-2007 and found that a lower sex ratio, i.e., a greater supply of marriage-age women, increases the bargaining power of men at the time of marriage and thereby increases their ability to marry younger and more educated women.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors adopt a modified idea-based growth model with endogenous human capital and population to explain why the theoretically relevant growth effect of population growth on economic growth is empirically unobservable.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors explain the decisions of families not to have children by using a more stringent formulation of Becker's original quantity-quality trade-off, and point out that increasing family support expenditure has not achieved its goal.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider the effects of different types of intergenerational transfer schemes on the stock of public debt in the context of an overlapping-generations model and show that finite lives will not be relevant to the capitalization of future tax liabilities so long as current generations are connected to future generations by a chain of operative inter-generational transfers.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors study whether the conclusions from existing studies are robust or fragile when small changes in the list of independent variables occur, and they find that although "policy"appears to be importantly related to growth, there is no strong independent relationship between growth and almost every existing policy indicator.

TL;DR: This article developed the equilibrium conditions for a rational consumer's lifetime consumption-saving pattern, a problem more recently given by Harrod the useful name of "hump saving" but which Landry, Bbhm-Bawerk, Fisher, and others had touched on long before my time.

TL;DR: In this paper, a general treatment of social interactions into the modern theory of consumer demand is presented, where various characteristics of different persons are assumed to affect the utility functions of some persons, and the behavioral implications are systematically explored.