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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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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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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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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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England's historical leadership as a low population-pressure, high-wage economy. -- spacing ; birth intervals ; fertility …
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Much has been written about the modern obesity epidemic, and historical BMIs are low compared to their modern counterparts. However, interpreting BMI variation is difficult because BMIs increase when weight increases or when stature decreases, and the two have different implications for human...
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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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The availability and composition of labor is fundamental for the structure of international trade. This points towards the importance of demographic transitions that affect trade through, for example, changing capital-labor ratios, urbanization dynamics, or changes in the composition of demand...
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and growth, whose simulations match our empirical findings. The current trend of population aging and reduced fertility is …
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