Differential Fertility, Intergenerational Mobility and the Process of Economic Development

Hiroki Aso

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Abstract: This paper analyzes the interactions among population dynamics with differential fertility, intergenerational mobility, income inequality and economic development in an overlapping generations framework. Population dynamics with differential fertility between the educated and the uneducated has two effects on the economy: the direct effect on the educated share through changing in population size of the economy as whole, and the indirect effect on the educated share through decreasing/increasing transfer per child. When population growth increases sufficiently, the mobility and income inequality exhibit cyclical behavior due to rapidly decreasing transfer per child and increasing population size. In contrast, when population growth decreases sufficiently, the mobility and income inequality monotonically approach steady state, and the economy has two steady states: low steady state with high population growth and income inequality, and high steady state with low population growth and income inequality. As a result, this paper shows that population dynamics plays crucial role in the transitional dynamics of mobility and economic development.

Keywords: Differential Fertility; Intergenerational Mobility and the Process of Economic Development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I24 I25 J13 J62 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020-12-23
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