Charlie Leonard

September 30, 2001

Mr. Horlacher

“The role of fertility and population in economic growth”

In their study on “The role of fertility and population in economic growth”(1993), James A. Brander and Steve Dowrick use a 107-country panel data set to re-examine the effects of population growth and fertility on economic growth. In this study, Brander and Dowrick’s most significant observation is that “birth rate declines have a strong medium-term positive impact on per capita income growth through labour supply or ‘dependency’ effects”