Scholars have charged population growth with lowering aggregate
income per capita, depleting natural resources, reducing the
quality of the environment, and causing more unequal distribution
of income. Maintaining that the order of these concerns should be
reversed, Peter H. Lindert emphasizes the tendency of higher
fertility and population growth to heighten economic inequalities.
His analysis also improves our knowledge of the ways in which
economic developments affect fertility. The author develops an
integrated model of fertility behavior featuring an original way of
defining and measuring the relative cost of an extra child. U.S.
fertility patterns in the twentieth century, he shows, are
partially explained by the interplay of a model of
intergenerational taste formation and fluctuation in relative child
costs. His reinterpretation of patterns in the inequality of
schooling and income in America highlights the role of fertility
and other demographic forces. From the author's analysis it appears
that concern over rapid population growth is more justified on
income-distribution grounds than on grounds of effects on average
per capita income. In showing that this is so, Professor Lindert
describes how families' use of time has changed since the late
nineteenth century. Originally published in 1978. The Princeton
Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again
make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished
backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the
original texts of these important books while presenting them in
durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton
Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly
heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton
University Press since its founding in 1905.
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