The Child is Father of the Man: Implications for the Demographic Transition

By David de la Croix, Omar Licandro. 2013

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face a second trade-off in allocating their time between increasing their own human capital and rearing children. The model displays different regimes. In a Malthusian regime with no education fertility increases with adult life expectancy. In the modern growth regime, life expectancy and fertility move in opposite directions. The dynamics display the key features of the demographic transition, including the hump in both population growth and fertility, and replicate the observed rise in educational attainment, adult life expectancy and economic growth. Consistent with the empirical evidence, a distinctive implication of our theory is that improvements in childhood development precede the increase in education.

Subfields: Demography, Economics and Econometrics, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

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Citations in the corpus

• Life Expectancy and the Environment (2010, unknown): “Such a mechanism has already been exploited, for instance, by Blackburn and Cipriani (2002) and de la Croix and Licandro (2007), in theoretical models linking growth and demographic dynamics.”