Family size, adolescents’ schooling and the Demographic Transition: Evidence from Brazil

Family size and schooling throughout the Demographic Transition: Evidence from Brazil

The goal of this paper is to address whether and how the changing family sizes of cohorts born before and after the demographic transition are associated with increasing schooling in Brazil. Multivariate analyses of nationally representative data demonstrate that, although a higher proportion of adolescents born after the demographic transition live in smaller families, they also suffer a great...

Stages of the Demographic Transition from a Child's Perspective: Family Size, Cohort Size, and Children's Resources.

This paper provides a new characterization of stages of the demographic transition, describing it from a child’s perspective. These stages describe the sequence of changes in family and cohort sizes that affect children’s resources. In Stage 1, falling mortality produces increases in surviving family size and in the size of birth cohorts. In Stage 2, falling fertility overtakes falling mortalit...

Evidence on the Demographic Transition

This paper finds that fertility responds to productivity differently depending upon the economy’s stage of development. At low levels of development, productivity increases will increase fertility while at the more advanced stages of development, productivity increases lower fertility. During the process there may be important interaction effects between productivity and education demand. Incre...

Determinants of schooling returns during transition: Evidence from Chinese cities

This paper uses 1988 and 1995 data from a national household survey to study across-region dispersions and changes over time in returns to education for a large number of Chinese cities and to analyze the determinants of schooling returns during economic transition. On average, the estimated rates of return at the city level increased from 3.1 to 5.1% between these two years and the dispersion ...

Gender, Demographic Transition and the Economics of Family Size: Population Policy for a Human-Centred Development