Fertility, Education, Growth, and Sustainability

Informationen zum Autor David de la Croix is Professor of Economics and a member of both IRES and CORE at the Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium. He is associate editor for the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, the Journal of Development Economics and the Journal of Public Economic Theory. His research interests cover growth theory, human capital, demographics and overlapping generations. Klappentext This book outlines key parallels between demographic development and economic outcomes, explaining how fertility, growth and inequality are related. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Part I. Differential Fertility: 1. Benchmark model; 2. Implications for the growth-inequality relationship; 3. Understanding the forerunners in fertility decline; Part II. Education Policy: 4. Education policy: private versus public schools; 5. Education politics and democracy; 6. Empirical evidence; Part III. Sustainability: 7. Environmental collapse and population dynamics; 8. Production, reproduction, and pollution caps; 9. Population policy; 10. Conclusion: endogenous fertility matters.

Product details

• Authors: David De La Croix, David de La Croix, David (Universite Catholique De Louva De La Croix, David de La Croix
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.11.2012
• EAN: 9781107029590
• ISBN: 978-1-107-02959-0
• No. of pages: 266
• Series: Cicse Lectures in Growth and D; The CICSE Lectures in Growth and Development
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Miscellaneous; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Economic Development, economic growth, Population and Demography, Development economics & emerging economies