Differential Fertility, Intergenerational Mobility and the Process of Economic Development

Aso, Hiroki (2020): Differential Fertility, Intergenerational Mobility and the Process of Economic Development.

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.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Subjects: I - Health, Education, and Welfare > I2 - Education and Research Institutions > I24 - Education and Inequality; I - Health, Education, and Welfare > I2 - Education and Research Institutions > I25 - Education and Economic Development; J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J1 - Demographic Economics > J13 - Fertility ; Family Planning ; Child Care ; Children ; Youth; J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J6 - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers > J62 - Job, Occupational, and Intergenerational Mobility

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