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Population aging in India : facts, issues, and options
Agarwal, Arunika; Lubet, Alyssa; Mitgang, Elizabeth; … - 2016
India, one of the world's two population superpowers, is undergoing unprecedented demographic changes. Increasing … context, scope, and magnitude of India's demographic changes. It then details the major challenges these shifts pose in the … presents an overview of India's recent and ongoing initiatives to adapt to population aging and provide support to older adults …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011528108
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Public expenditure, demography and growth : theory and evidence from India
Pranab Kumar Das; Kar, Saibal - 2016
countries in the south have younger population. India for example, has 60% of its population in the age group of 15-59, with the … physical infrastructure are conducive to rapid economic growth commensurate with the projected demographic dividends for India …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452232
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Where have all the young girls gone? : identification of sex selection in India
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Cochrane, Tom - 2010
at birth in India. It conducts a triple difference analysis across cohort, birth order and sex of previous births … sex diagnosis ; ultrasound ; gender ; India ; triple difference estimator ; differences in differences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009313317
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Childhood vaccinations and demographic transition : long-term evidence from India
Nandi, Arindam; Summan, Amit; Ngô, Thoai D.; Bloom, … - 2022
remain untested. In this study, we examine the demographic effects of India's national childhood vaccination program (the … preference data of 625,000 adult women from the National Family Health Survey of India 2015-2016. We include women who were born …
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Population decline in Lithuania : who lives in declining regions and who leaves?
Ubarevičienė, Rūta; Ham, Maarten van - 2016
Since the 1990s, Lithuania lost almost a quarter of its population, and some regions within the country lost more than 50% of their residents. Such a sharp population decline poses major challenges to politicians, policy makers and planners. This study aims to get more insight into the recent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011528102
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Africa's prospects for enjoying a demographic dividend
Bloom, David E.; Kuhn, Michael; Prettner, Klaus - 2016
We assess Africa's prospects for enjoying a demographic dividend. While fertility rates and dependency ratios in Africa remain high, they have started to decline. According to UN projections, they will fall further in the coming decades such that by the mid-21st century the ratio of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011528105
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The global demography of aging : facts, explanations, future
Bloom, David E.; Luca, Dara Lee - 2016
Population ageing is the 21st century's dominant demographic phenomenon. Declining fertility, increasing longevity, and the progression of large-sized cohorts to the older ages are causing elder shares to rise throughout the world. The phenomenon of population ageing, which is unprecedented in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011528111
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Demography of global aging
Bloom, David E.; Mitgang, Elizabeth; Osher, Benjamin - 2016
Individuals aged 65 years and older currently make up a larger share of the population than ever before, and this group is predicted to continue growing both in absolute terms and relative to the rest of the population. This chapter begins by introducing the facts, figures, and forecasts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011528113
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Fiscal sustainability and demographic change : a micro approach for 27 EU countries
Dolls, Mathias; Doorley, Karina; Paulus, Alari; … - 2015
The effect of demographic change on the labor force and on fiscal revenues is topical in light of potential pension shortfalls. This paper evaluates the effect of demographic changes between 2010 and 2030 on labor force participation and government budgets in the EU-27. Our analysis involves the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011449292
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The cultural diffusion of the fertility transition : evidence from internal migration in 19th century France
Daudin, Guillaume; Franck, Raphaël; Rapoport, Hillel - 2016
France experienced the demographic transition before richer and more educated countries. This paper offers a novel explanation for this puzzle that emphasizes the diffusion of culture and information through internal migration. It tests how migration affected fertility by building a decennial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011476530