@article{Futa:197136,
      recid = {197136},
      author = {Futa, Mudiumbula and Tweeten, Luther},
      title = {Impact of Per Capita Income Growth on Population Growth: A  Cross Sectional Analysis},
      address = {1981},
      number = {988-2016-77365},
      pages = {6},
      year = {1981},
      abstract = {A number of writers contend that rising per capita incomes  will reduce birth
rates and solve problems of high  population growth in developing countries (see,
for  example, Clark and Simon). This contention is attractive  because family
planning programmes that may conflict with  some religious and ethical values
need not be implemented.  But the contention is dangerous if it is wrong. Even
if  developing countries temporarily achieve per capita income  gains, failure of
such gains to retard population growth  can eventually offset advances in total
income and relegate  developing countries to low per capita incomes  and
undernutrition for years to come.
The purpose of this  paper is to test empirically the null hypothesis that  the
population growth rate is not influenced by the per  capita income growth rate.
This hypothesis has been  addressed in the past on both deductive and  empirical
grounds. Microeconomic theoretical analysis  suggests that higher family income
results in higher  fertility rates (Becker). Some empirical evidence supports  this
conclusion (Adelman). However, other empirical studies  report negative income
elasticities of fertility  (Ben-Porath, for example).},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/197136},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.197136},
}