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Income and Population Growth
Brückner, Markus; Schwandt, Hannes - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
, we find that this population effect results from both a positive effect on fertility and a negative effect on infant and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010665152
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Entrepreneurial Innovation and Sustained Long-Run Growth without Weak or Strong Scale Effects
Grossmann, Volker - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
R&D-based growth theory suggests that a larger population size raises either the long-run rate of economic growth (“strong scale effect”) or the level of per capita income (“weak scale effect”), with far-reaching policy implications. However, for modern times there is little empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763914
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The Long-Run Effects of Mortality Decline in Developing Countries
Lehmijoki, Ulla; Palokangas, Tapio K. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
decline on demographic and economic growth by a family-optimization model, in which fertility is endogenous and wealth yields … population growth, but the desire of status hampers fertility and prevents capital-diluting demographic expansion. If status …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008788725
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HIV and Fertility in Africa: First Evidence from Population Based Surveys
Juhn, Chinhui; Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem; Turan, Belgi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
The historical pattern of the demographic transition suggests that fertility declines follow mortality declines … responses in fertility will reinforce this decline by reducing the willingness to engage in unprotected sex. We utilize recent … rounds of the Demographic and Health Surveys that link an individual woman’s fertility outcomes to her HIV status based on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008517970
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The Agricultural Origins of Time Preference
Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This research explores the origins of the distribution of time preference across regions. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically, that geographical variations in natural land productivity and their impact on the return to agricultural investment have had a persistent effect on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959583
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Happiness and Growth the World Over: Time Series Evidence on the Happiness-Income Paradox
Easterlin, Richard A.; Angelescu, Laura - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
There is no significant relationship between the improvement in happiness and the long term rate of growth of GDP per capita. This is true for three groups of countries analyzed separately − 17 developed, 9 developing, and 11 transition − and also for the 37 countries taken together. Time...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822021
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Happiness and Economic Growth: Does the Cross Section Predict Time Trends? Evidence from Developing Countries
Easterlin, Richard A.; Sawangfa, Onnicha - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Based on point-of-time comparisons of happiness in richer and poorer countries, it is commonly asserted that economic growth will have a significant positive impact on happiness in poorer countries, if not richer. The time trends of subjective well-being (SWB) in 13 developing countries,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822865
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Aid, Growth, and Jobs
Fields, Gary S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Various development objectives are worthy, but to my mind, one objective dominates all others: reducing the scourge of absolute economic misery in the world. In this paper, I focus on an important but relatively underemphasized approach to poverty reduction: helping the poor earn more in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010778775
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Migration, Openness and the Global Preconditions of 'Smart Development'
Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
In this article, we present a first empirical reflection on 'smart development', its measurement, possible 'drivers' and 'bottlenecks'. We first provide cross-national data on how much ecological footprint is used in the nations of the world system to 'deliver' a given amount of democracy,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009369100
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Land Reforms, Status and Population Growth
Lehmijoki, Ulla; Palokangas, Tapio K. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
-optimization model with sharecropping, endogenous fertility and status seeking. We show that tenant farming is the major obstacle to … escaping the Malthusian trap with high fertility and low productivity. A land reform provides peasant families higher returns … decreases fertility and increases productivity in agriculture in the short and long runs. The European demographic history …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010756232