An empirical test of a neo - Malthusian theory of fertility change

Violent Environments

According to co-editors Nancy Lee Peluso and Michael Watts, Violent Environments is meant to provide “both a critique of the school of environmental security and alternative ways of understanding the connections between environment and violence” (p. 5). This new and thought-provoking book takes particular aim at the neo-Malthusian approach to studying environmental conflicts (an approach that m...

Gender and Crime: An Empirical Test of General Strain Theory among Youth in Babol (A City in Northern Part of Iran)

This  paper  presents  an attempt  to use Agnew’s General Strain Theory ( GST) (1992) for explanation of the  criminal behavior  differences between  young males and females in Babol, a city in northern part of Iran. General Strain Theory (GST) is essentially regarded as a set of ideas formulated to explain the occurrence of crime as a result of the strain in social life. This study explores th...

Escaping Malthus: Economic Growth and Fertility Change in the Developing World∗

Following mid-20 century predictions of Malthusian catastrophe, fertility in the developing world more than halved. We analyze how fertility change related to economic growth during this episode, using data on 2.3 million women from 255 surveys in 81 countries. We find different responses to fluctuations and long-run growth, both of them heterogeneous over the lifecycle. Fertility was procyclic...

Malthusian and Neo-Malthusian Theories/

Growth and Fertility in the Long Run

This paper develops a theory that accounts for three stylized facts concerning growth and fertility in the long run. First, economies start in a “Malthusian Regime” with stagnant living standards and high fertility. Second, ultimately a “Growth Regime” is reached in which per capita income grows at near-constant rates, and fertility is low. Third, the speed and timing of the fertility decline d...