Accounting for Fertility Decline During the Transition to Growth

By Matthias Doepke. 2004

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Trade and the Great Divergence: The Family Connection (2006, background): “See also, Joel Mokyr (1990), Galor and David N. Weil (2000), Galor and Omer Moav (2002), Robert E. Lucas (2002), Antoni Estavadeordal, Brian Frantz and Alan M. Taylor (2003), Galor and Andrew Mountford (2003), Matthias Doepke (2004), and Kevin H. O’Rourke and Jeffrey G. Williamson (2005).”
The Economic and Demographic Transition, Mortality, and Comparative Development (2013, unknown): “…set of time invariant parameters that have a clear economic interpretation and that can be calibrated targeting observable data 1 See also Doepke (2004) for an investigation of the interplay between technology and fertility; de la Croix and Licandro (1999), Kalemli-Ozcan, Ryder and Weil…”
An Economic History of Fertility in the U.S.: 1826-1960 (2006, unknown): “Thus, each point in Figure 4 represents the average CEB of wives of men in one OI decile, for a particular birth cohort of women.(32) (Table A4 in Appendix B includes the actual numbers.”
Demographic transitions: analyzing the effects of mortality on fertility (2008, background): “…less frequency, among which we can mention the decline in the gender wage gap (Galor and Weil 1996), the reduction in the importance of child labour (Hazan and Berdugo 2002, Doepke 2004), Darwinian evolution (Galor and Moav 2002) and the e¤ects of trade specialization (Galor and Mountford 2006).”
Dualism and cross-country growth regressions (2006, background): “The papers closest to ours are those of Dowrick and Gemmell (1991), LandonLane and Robertson (2003) and Poirson (2000, 2001).”
Child mortality and fertility decline: Does the Barro-Becker model fit the facts? (2002, background): “It is instructive to compare this result to Eckstein et al. (1999), who fit a theoretical model of fertility choice to Swedish data, and carry out a series of counterfactual experiments to assess the contributions of child mortality decline and wage increases to fertility decline. Concentrating on t”
From Stagnation to Sustained Growth: The Role of Female Empowerment (2013, background): “…birth and death rates to low birth and 2 The seminal work of Galor and Weil was quickly followed by new contributions for example, Jones (2001), Lucas (2002), Hansen and Prescott (2002), Galor and Moav (2002), Doepke (2004), Galor (2005), Cervellati and Sunde (2005), Strulik and Weisdorf (2008).”
How the West "invented" fertility restriction (2013, unknown): “Attention has also focused on the changing cost of children as a result of nineteenth-century compulsory schooling laws and factory acts restricting child labor (Doepke, 2004; Puerta, 2009).”
Efficiency with Endogenous Population Growth (2007, unknown): “…optimality, first welfare theorem, fertility, dynasty, altruism ∗We would like to thank Kenneth Arrow, Doug Bernheim, Partha Dasgupta, Ed Prescott, and Igor Livshits and seminar participants at numerous locations for helpful discussions and comments, and the National Science Foundation and…”
Clans, Guilds, and Markets: Apprenticeship Institutions and Growth in the Pre-Industrial Economy (2016, background): “Fertility preferences can be motivated through parental altruism (Barro and Becker 1989 and applied in a Malthusian context by Doepke 2004, among others) or through direct preferences over the quantity and quality of children (e.g., Galor and Weil 2000; de la Croix and Doepke 2003).”