In this survey, we argue that the economic analysis of fertility has entered a new era. First-
generation models of fertility choice were designed to account for two empirical regularities …

Why do certain countries display high gender equalities while others display low gender
equalities? To what extent does gender equality foster economic growth and development …

High-income countries have generally experienced falling fertility in recent decades. In most
of these countries, the total fertility rate is now below the level that implies a stable …

Populations that share a more recent common ancestry exchange goods, capital,
innovations and technologies more intensively, but they also tend to fight more with each …

Most humans are significantly richer than their ancestors. Humanity gained nearly all of its
wealth in the last two centuries. How did this come to pass? How did the world become rich …

Two centuries ago, in most countries around the world, women were unable to vote, had no
say over their own children or property, and could not obtain a divorce. Women have …

We revisit the relationship between ancestral distance and barriers to the diffusion of
development by replicating previous results with a new genomic dataset on human …

African political leaders have a tendency to favor members of their own ethnic group. Yet for
all other ethnic groups in a country, it is unclear whether having a similar ethnicity to the …

In this paper we show that demographic differences between countries are a source of
comparative advantage in international trade. Since many skills are age-dependent …

Unified growth theory suggests the fertility decline was crucial for achieving long-term
growth, yet the causes behind that decline are still not entirely clear from an empirical point …