Endogenous fertility, mortality and growth

Economic and demographic outcomes are determined jointly in a choice-theore tic model of fertility, mortality and capital accumulation. There is an end ogenous population of reproductive agents who belong to dynastic families o f overlapping generations connected through altruism. In addition to choosi ng savings and births, parents may reduce (infant) deaths by incurring expe nditures on health-care which is also provided by the government. A general ised production technology accounts for long-run endogenous growth with sho rt-run transitional dynamics. The analysis yields testable time series and cross-section implications which accord with the empirical evidence on the relationship between demography and development.