Population Growth and Human Capital Investments
Theory and Evidence
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10179376 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mark R Rosenzweig (0000-0002-6323-1418, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1990 |
| Volume | 98 |
| Issue | 5, Part 2 |
| Pages | S38-S70 |
| Publication date | 1990-10-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Political Economy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-3808 • E-ISSN: 1537-534X |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/261724 |
| OpenAlex | W2088181996 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 36 |
| References cited | 12 |
This paper presents evidence from empirical studies that test hypotheses derived from models of household behavior pertaining to the interrelationships among population growth, human capital, and economic development. These studies have exploited quasi-natural experiments embodied in the cross-area variability in the wage rates of children in a number of low-income countries, the intercouple variation in the biological propensity to conceive, and the geographically selective introduction of new high-yielding seed varieties in India in the period 1961-71. The different varieties of evidence support the hypotheses that alterations in the returns to human capital associated with exogenous technical change lead simultaneously to increases in human capital investments and to reductions in fertility and that the costliness of fertility control is a significant but modest factor in inhibiting human capital investments
Capital deepening · Capital formation · Demographic economics · Economic growth · Economics · Empirical evidence · Fertility · Financial capital · Human capital · Labour economics · Population · Population growth · Demography · Economic Growth and Productivity · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth · Income, Poverty, and Inequality
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Family Theory
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Heterogeneity in intergenerational childcare support and its association with further childbearing intentions in China
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Chapter 34 Human resources
The Replaceable
Unintended Childbearing and Child Growth in Northern Malawi
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Purchasing Power Disparity Faced by African Americans
Male backlash, bargaining, or exposure reduction
On opulence driven poverty traps
A model on the escape from the Malthusian trap
Fertility and education premiums
What's yours is mine, and what's mine is mine
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Social norms and the fertility transition
A defense of compulsive measures against child labor
Child labor and coordination failures
Parental education, class and income over early life course and children's achievement
Human capital convergence in Latin America
Endogenous growth of population and income depending on resource and knowledge
Endogenous Growth of Population and Income Depending on Resource and Knowledge
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Brothers and sisters
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Changing Patterns of Infant Mortality and Maternal Fertility among Pumé Foragers and Horticulturalists
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How infrastructure and financial institutions affect agricultural output and investment in India
Motivations to Remit
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An Equilibrium Theory of the Distribution of Income and Intergenerational Mobility
An Estimable Dynamic Stochastic Model of Fertility and Child Mortality
Education and the Derived Demand for Children
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Poverty and Population
| Citations per year | 1.09 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1993 - 2026 (34) |
| Highly cited | No |