title: Endogenous fertility, mortality and growth.
abstract: This paper presents a model that illustrates the joint determination of population and development. "Economic and demographic outcomes are determined jointly in a choice-theoretic model of fertility, mortality and capital accumulation.... In addition to choosing savings and births, parents may reduce (infant) deaths by incurring expenditures on health-care which is also provided by the government. A generalised production technology accounts for long-run endogenous growth with short-run transitional dynamics. The analysis yields testable time series and cross-section implications which accord with the empirical evidence on the relationship between demography and development."
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Blackburn
authors.forename: G P
authors.initials: GP
authors.lastname: Cipriani
mesh_terms: D003710:Demography; D004467:Economics; D005298:Fertility; D005376:Financial Management; D005102:Health Expenditures; D007182:Income; D007226:Infant Mortality; D007449:Investments; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009026:Mortality; D011153:Population; D011157:Population Dynamics; D012106:Research
keywords: Demographic Factors; Economic Development; Economic Factors; Expenditures; Fertility; Financial Activities; Infant Mortality--prevention and control; Investments; Macroeconomic Factors; Models, Theoretical; Mortality; Population; Population Dynamics; Research Methodology; Savings; World