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three-fourths are due to population growth. This striking evidence is not represented in the majority of climate … the interactions between climate change and population dynamics. We develop an analytical model of endogenous fertility …
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I present the first database of historical local population figures for all Germany. The German Local Population … Database (GPOP) includes total population in 1871, 1910, 1939, 1946, 1961, 1987, 1996, 2011, and 2019 for the universe of all …. For example, East and West Germany are heavily diverging in population since 1945; and the divide was not reversed but …
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rate. Second, we use UN population projections on population size and the associated age-distribution to predict income …Population forecasts indicate that the world is facing massive demographic changes during the 21st century. This does … not only involve the development of the total global population, but (more importantly) will also affect the population …
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-shaped consumption age profiles. The main driver behind lifecycle consumption variations are lifecycle income changes, which display … similar flattening. Employing a lifecycle model we show changes in income are sufficient to match the movements in consumption …
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Economists use micro-based and macro-based approaches to assess the macroeconomic return to population health. The …
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This paper examines the extent to which changes in working-age shares associated with population aging might slow … growth model using country panel data from 1950–2015. We then juxtapose the estimates with predicted shifts in population age … structure to project economic growth in 2020–2050. Our results indicate that population aging will slow economic growth …
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Slower growth of the labour force and an increase in old-age dependency will reduce the growth of aggregate output and output per capita in many developed countries. However, a major question is whether there is any systematic link between demographics and the productivity of those who will...
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How does population aging affect economic growth and factor shares in times of increasingly automatable production … though the aggregate production function is Cobb-Douglas. Population aging due to a higher longevity reduces automation in … long run, lifts the labor share in the short and reduces it in the long run. Population aging due to a decline in fertility …
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Economists use micro-based and macro-based approaches to assess the macroeconomic return to population health. The …
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Heights and body mass index values (BMIs) are now well accepted measures that reflect net nutrition during economic development and institutional change. This study uses 19th century weights instead of BMIs to measure factors associated with current net nutrition. Across the weight distribution...
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