TY - BOOK ID - 67083744 TI - Fertility, Education, Growth, and Sustainability. PY - 2012 SN - 9781107029590 9781139342216 9781107443051 9781139840491 1139840495 1139342215 128381255X 9781283812559 9781139845229 1139845225 9781139846080 1139846086 9781139842860 1139842862 1107029597 9780521764759 0521764750 1107443059 1107237319 1139854305 113984167X PB - Cambridge Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Fertility, Human KW - Population KW - Economic aspects KW - 314.3 KW - Human population KW - Human populations KW - Population growth KW - Populations, Human KW - Economics KW - Human ecology KW - Sociology KW - Demography KW - Malthusianism KW - Human fertility KW - Natality KW - Human reproduction KW - Infertility KW - 314.3 Vruchtbaarheid. Nataliteit --(demografie) KW - Vruchtbaarheid. Nataliteit --(demografie) KW - Population. KW - Economic aspects. KW - Business, Economy and Management KW - Fertility, Human - Economic aspects UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:67083744 AB - Fertility choices depend not only on the surrounding culture but also on economic incentives, which have important consequences for inequality, education and sustainability. This book outlines parallels between demographic development and economic outcomes, explaining how fertility, growth and inequality are related. It provides a set of general equilibrium models where households choose their number of children, analysed in four domains. First, inequality is particularly damaging for growth as human capital is kept low by the mass of grown-up children stemming from poor families. Second, the cost of education can be an important determining factor on fertility. Third, fertility is sometimes viewed as a strategic variable in the power struggle between different cultural, ethnic and religious groups. Finally, fertility might be affected by policies targeted at other objectives. Incorporating new findings with the discussion of education policy and sustainability, this book is a significant addition to the literature on growth. ER -