Child mortality and fertility decline: Does the Barro-Becker model fit the facts?

By Matthias Doepke. 2002

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, General Health Professions

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The Demographic Transition and the Emergence of Sustained Economic Growth (2005, background): “3A quantitative analysis by Doepke (2005) supports the viewpoint that a decline in infant mortality rates was not the trigger for the decline in net fertility during the demographic transition. based on data from England in the time period 1861—1951.”
The Facts of Economic Growth (2015, background): “…percent of households was around 9 percent in 1920, and in both countries the share declined sharply until 16For example, see Galor and Weil (1996), Doepke (2005), Greenwood, Seshadri and Vandenbroucke (2005), Jones, Schoonbroodt and Tertilt (2010), Cordoba and Ripoll (2014), and Jones and Tertilt…”
How do epidemics induce behavioral changes? (2009, neutral): “It has however been shown byDoepke (2005) that once the further feature of sequential fertility decisions is introduced (i.”
Demographic transitions: analyzing the effects of mortality on fertility (2008, background): “Several realistic generalizations would eliminate or at least attenuate this effect: parents would be less likely to hoard children if each birth is costly (as in Cigno 1998 )o r if they can take the decision of replacing a child after the occurrence of mortality (as in Doepke 2005 ).”
From Stagnation to Growth: Unified Growth Theory (2004, neutral): “The rise in the demand for human capital induces parents to substitute quality for quantity of children.(83)”
Fertility Theories: Can They Explain the Negative Fertility-Income Relationship? (2008, neutral): “…and Weil (1996), Galor and Weil (1999), Galor and Weil (2000), Greenwood and Seshadri (2002), Hansen and Prescott (2002), Boldrin and Jones (2002), Doepke (2004, 2005), Greenwood, Seshadri, and Vandenbroucke (2005), Moav (2005), Tertilt (2005), Jones and Schoonbroodt (2007b), Murtin (2007) and…”
An Economic History of Fertility in the U.S.: 1826-1960 (2006, neutral): “Using the data underlying Figure 5, we can do a formal accounting decomposition of the observed patterns from start to finish into movements along a curve relating income to fertility and shifts of that curve over time.(33) To do this, we now fit a log-log regression between average OI by decile of ”
Human Capital Inequality, Life Expectancy and Economic Growth (2008, neutral): “sarily have a negative influence on education when mortality is realised before education starts (Doepke, 2005; Azarnert, 2006).”