New Results on Fertility and Growth

Last month Serhan Cevik, a senior economist at the International Monetary Fund, published a working paper studying the causal effect of fertility rates on economic growth. Hat tip to Lyman Stone for alerting me to this paper’s existence and luring me in with the clickbait title:SourceA positive relationship between fertility and economic growth is intuitive. People are the most important input to every production process (for now). People come up with the technology and ideas that fuel economic ...