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DIFFERENTIAL FERTILITY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 May 2013

Hideki Nakamura  and
Yoshihiko Seoka
Hideki Nakamura*
Affiliation:
Osaka City University
Yoshihiko Seoka
Affiliation:
Osaka City University
*
Address correspondence to: Hideki Nakamura, Faculty of Economics, Osaka City University, 3-3-138 Sugimoto, Sumiyoshi, Osaka 558-8585, Japan; e-mail: hnakamur@econ.osaka-cu.ac.jp.
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Abstract

This paper considers differential fertility and analyzes how the fertility of people caught in poverty disturbs their escape from poverty. For escape from poverty, it is necessary that the average human capital stock exceed certain thresholds before the ratio of the number of poor to rich people increases more rapidly than the human capital level of rich people. Thus, the escape depends on a race between the accumulation of human capital by the rich and the accumulation of children by the poor. A high initial ratio of the number of poor to rich people would imply persistent poverty.

Keywords

Differential FertilityChild LaborRatio of the Number of Rich to Poor PeopleDevelopmentPoverty
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Macroeconomic Dynamics , Volume 18 , Issue 5 , July 2014 , pp. 1048 - 1068
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2013 

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