Fertility, Education, Growth, and Sustainability

David de la Croix

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David de la Croix, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: December 2012
Print publication year:: 2012
Online ISBN:: 9781139342216
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139342216

Subjects:: Economics, Economic Development and Growth, Economic History
Series:: The CICSE Lectures in Growth and Development

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Fertility choices depend not only on the surrounding culture but also on economic incentives, which have important consequences for inequality, education and sustainability. This book outlines parallels between demographic development and economic outcomes, explaining how fertility, growth and inequality are related. It provides a set of general equilibrium models where households choose their number of children, analysed in four domains. First, inequality is particularly damaging for growth as human capital is kept low by the mass of grown-up children stemming from poor families. Second, the cost of education can be an important determining factor on fertility. Third, fertility is sometimes viewed as a strategic variable in the power struggle between different cultural, ethnic and religious groups. Finally, fertility might be affected by policies targeted at other objectives. Incorporating new findings with the discussion of education policy and sustainability, this book is a significant addition to the literature on growth.

'… presents parallels between demographic development and economic outcomes, explaining how fertility, growth, and inequality are related.'

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-viii

List of figures
pp ix-x

List of tables
pp xi-xii

List of symbols
pp xiii-xiv

List of definitions
pp xv-xv

List of propositions
pp xvi-xviii

Introduction
pp 1-6

PART ONE - DIFFERENTIAL FERTILITY
pp 7-8

1 - Benchmark model
pp 9-19

2 - Implications for the growth–inequality relationship
pp 20-47

3 - Understanding the forerunners in fertility decline
pp 48-66

PART TWO - EDUCATION POLICY
pp 67-68

4 - Education policy: private versus public schools
pp 69-90

5 - Education politics and democracy
pp 91-129

6 - Empirical evidence
pp 130-150

PART THREE - SUSTAINABILITY
pp 151-152

7 - Environmental collapse and population dynamics
pp 153-183

8 - Production, reproduction, and pollution caps
pp 184-204

9 - Population policy
pp 205-232

10 - Conclusion: endogenous fertility matters
pp 233-234

Bibliography
pp 235-244

Author index
pp 245-247

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