Growth and Demographic Change: Do Environmental Factors Matter?

We incorporate health-damaging pollution into a three period overlapping generations model in which life expectancy, fertility and economic growth are all endogenous. We show that environmental factors can cause significant changes to the economy’s demographics. In particular, the entrepreneurial choice of less polluting production processes, induced by environmental policy, can account for such demographic changes as higher longevity and lower fertility rates.

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Year of publication:	2011-09
Authors:	Varvarigos, Dimitrios ; Zakaria, Intan Zanariah
Institutions:	Department of Economics, Leicester University
Subject:	Economic growth \| Pollution \| Demography

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	Discussion Papers in Economics.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Number 11/46
Classification:	J10 - Demographic Economics. General ; O41 - One, Two, and Multisector Growth Models ; Q56 - Environment and Development; Environment and Trade; Sustainability; Environmental Accounting
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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