PREFACE

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. LIST OF FIGURES xiii
4. LIST OF TABLES xvii
5. PREFACE xxi
6. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xxv
7. LIST OF SYMBOLS xxvii
8. FOREWORD xxix
9. Chapter I: Introduction to the Issues and to the Book 1
10. PART I: The Effects of Population Growth on Economic Conditions
11. Introduction 23
12. Chapter 2: The Effect of Population Growth on the Economic Level: Background, Comparative Statics, and General Dynamic Model 25
13. Chapter 3: The Influence of Population Growth on Income in Developed Economies: Data, Theories, and Micro-Economic Variables 44
14. Chapter 4: Macro-Economic Influences of Population Growth on Income in Developed Economies 63
15. Chapter 5: Natural Resources, Pollution, and Population Growth in MDC's 82
16. Chapter 6: The Effect of Population on Per- Worker Income in MDC's: A Simulation 108
17. Chapter 7: The Effect of Population Growth on LDC Economies and Their Development: The Model in General 137
18. Chapter 8: Change in Agricultural Techniques: The Population-Push and Invention-Pull Theories of Economic-Demographic History Reconciled 158
19. Chapter 9: Behavior Change, Amount of Work, and Population Increase in LDC Agriculture 183
20. Appendix to Chapter 9: Case Study of the Sensitivity of Agricultural Productive Behavior to Increase in Farm Population in Village India 204
21. Chapter 10: The Effect of Additional Children on Nonfarm Physical and Human Capital in LDC's 216
22. Appendix to Chapter 10: Criticism of the Coale-Hoover Results 235
23. Chapter 11: The Effect of Population Growth on Agricultural Investment in LDC's 238
24. Chapter 12: The Effect of Population Growth on Social Capital and Economies of Scale 262
25. Chapter 13: Simulations of the Effect of Population Growth on the Economic Development of LDC's 278
26. PART II: The Effects of Economic Conditions on Fertility
27. Introduction 309
28. Chapter 14: The Effect of Income on Fertility: Basic Theory and Concepts 310
29. Appendix to Chapter 14: A Formal Reconciliation of the Contradiction between Time-Series and Cross-Section Evidence on Income and Fertility 326
30. Chapter 15: The Short-Run and Long-Run Effects of Income on Fertility in MDC's 329
31. Chapter 16: The Short-Run and Long-Run Effects of lncome on Fertility in LDC's 353
32. Chapter 17: Incentives and Income Redistribution as Devices to Alter Fertility 364
33. PART III: Economic Decisions about Population Growth
34. Introduction 391
35. Chapter 18: The Welfare Economics of Fertility 393
36. Appendix to Chapter 18: Some Additional Issues 420
37. Chapter 19: The Per-Capita-Income Criterion and Natality Policies in Poor Countries 423
38. Chapter 20: The Value of Averted Births to People in the LDC's 428
39. Chapter 21: A Cost-Benefit Decision Method for LDC Fertility Reduction Programs 440
40. Chapter 22: Birth-Control Market-Segmentation Strategy, or How To Increase Contraceptive Usage 451
41. Chapter 23: Summary and Conclusions 474
42. Chapter 24: Some Speculations 486
43. Appendix: Common Objections to the Book's Conclusions and Some Simplified Rebuttals 493
44. References 507
45. Index 545