Corruption, Fertility, and Human Capital

Panagiotis Arsenis () and Dimitrios Varvarigos ()

No 11/28, Discussion Papers in Economics from Division of Economics, School of Business, University of Leicester

Abstract: We build an overlapping generations model in which reproductive households face a child quantity/child quality trade-off and bureaucrats are delegated with the task of delivering public services that support the accumulation of human capital. By integrating the theoretical analyses of endogenous growth, corruption and fertility choices, we offer a novel mechanism on the driving forces behind demographic transition. In particular, we attribute it to the endogenous change in the incidence of bureaucratic corruption that occurs at different stages of an economy?s transition towards higher economic development.

Keywords: Corruption; Demographic transition; Human capital; Economic growth (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D73 H52 J13 O41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011-04, Revised 2011-04
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