Economic complexity and fertility: insights from a low fertility country

Economic Geography, Fertility and Migration

This paper analyzes the relationship among economic geography, fertility and migration. The empirical evidence presented reveals that persistent regional variations in fertility exist within a country and that regional total fertility rates are negatively related to regional population density. A two-period overlapping generations model of endogenous fertility, incorporating n-regions, agglomer...

The Fertility Transition: Economic Explanations

Economic explanations for the fertility transition focus on the role of returns to schooling, especially for women, which have encouraged women to obtain more education and facilitated the rise in women’s wages relative to men’s. The private opportunity costs of children have therefore increased, and parents have been motivated to substitute child schooling for additional births Declines in fer...

Economic Theory of Fertility Behavior

A global perspective on assisted reproductive technology fertility treatment: an 8-country fertility specialist survey

BACKGROUND Procedures that may optimize success in achieving live births from assisted reproductive technology (ART) continue to be examined. Not yet considered are the perspectives of fertility specialists regarding important developments in the fertility treatment field, current unmet needs, and anticipated future advances. In the current study, an 8-country survey of fertility specialists wa...

Economic Growth and Cycles: Cross-country Models of Education, Industry and Fertility and International Comparisons

We analyse, from a worldwide view, the evolution of real Gross Domestic Product, Population and Gdp per inhabitant and the main differences in the levels of development are explained having into account the results of several cross-country models. The main conclusions highlight the necessity of new international policies for improving the educative level of population in less developed countrie...