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Book SynopsisScholars 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
Table of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. v*Preface, pg. ix*CHAPTER 1. The Issues, pg. 3*CHAPTER 2. The Argument in Brief, pg. 14*CHAPTER 3. Remodelling the Household for Fertility Analysis, pg. 37*CHAPTER 4. The Relative Cost of American Children, pg. 83*CHAPTER 5. American Fertility Patterns Since the Civil War, pg. 137*CHAPTER 6. Fertility and Investments in Children, pg. 181*CHAPTER 7. Fertility, Labor Supply, and Inequality: the Macroeconomic Evidence, pg. 216*APPENDIX A. The Job-Interruption Effect on Wage Rates as a Part of Child Cost, pg. 261*APPENDIX BETA. The Work-Time Effects of Children in the Home: Regression Results, pg. 274*APPENDIX C. Time Inputs into Siblings, 1967-68: Hypotheses and Estimates, pg. 285*APPENDIX D. Net Effects of Children on Family Consumption Patterns, 1960-61 and 1889-90, pg. 322*APPENDIX EPSILON. Total Child Costs and Child Inputs, 1960-61, pg. 346*APPENDIX F. The Index of Relative Child Costs, 1900-70, pg. 374*APPENDIX G. Selected Data Used in Regressions on State Child-Woman Ratios, 1900-70, pg. 381*Index, pg. 391
