This research empirically establishes the hypothesis that the process of population aging in a society as a whole … "societal population aging" is the old-age dependency ratio. "Attitudes" are taken from immigration related questions in eight … effect of societal population aging on individual attitudes towards immigration is negative in young societies and positive …

exogenously imposed population thresholds leading to an increased number and/or remuneration of local office-holders. Using data … population growth through policy measures aimed at stimulating net in-migration when approaching important population thresholds … election cycle to maximize population growth just before the 'deadline' to surpass a population threshold - act as a key …

We leverage a large-scale incentivized survey eliciting behaviors from (almost) an entire university student population …, a representative sample of the U.S. population, and Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) to address concerns about the … external validity of experiments with student participants. Behavior in the student population offers bounds on behaviors in …

population, and incentives for investment in human capital combine to predict the decline of the West. In particular, indigenous … transfers. For the economy at large, high-fertility unskilled immigrants and a low-fertility indigenous population result in …