Growth, Population, Birth, Mortality, and Gender Time Distribution

This chapter, Growth, Population, Birth, Mortality, and Gender Time Distribution, introduces the endogenous population growth model into the one-sector neoclassical growth model. It proposes a dynamic interdependence between birth rate, mortality rate, population change, wealth accumulation, and time distribution between work, leisure, and children caring. The production side and wealth accumulation are built on the Solow growth model. The population dynamics are based on the Haavelmo population model and the Barro-Becker fertility choice model. Section 2.1 introduces the basic model with wealth accumulation and human capital accumulation with government subsidy on education. Section 2.2 simulates the model. Section 2.3 studies how a rise in the propensity to have children affects the economic system. Section 2.4 examines how the system evolves when the total factor productivity is increased. Section 2.5 analyzes how a rise in women’s propensity to pursue leisure activities affects the motion of the system. Section 2.6 shows the changes in the system as the propensity to save is changed. Section 2.7 plots the motion of the system when a woman’s human capital is enhanced and improved. Section 2.8 follows the motion of the system when the father spends more time on children fostering.