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Fertility, mortality and environmental policy

Lehmijoki, Ulla; Palokangas, Tapio K. - 2016

This article examines pollution and environmental mortality in an economy where fertility is endogenous and output is … pollution-induced mortality but also shifts resources to the clean sector. If the dirty sector is more capital intensive, then … expansion of population boosts total pollution, aggravating mortality. …

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Quasi-experimental methods in environmental economics : opportunities and challenges

Deschênes, Olivier; Meng, Kyle C. - 2018

This paper examines the application of quasi-experimental methods in environmental economics. We begin with two observations: i) standard quasi-experimental methods, first applied in other microeconomic fields, typically assume unit-level treatments that do not spill over across units; (ii)...

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The demographic transition : causes and consequences

Galor, Oded - 2012

; Unified Growth Theory …

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Land reforms, status and population growth

Lehmijoki, Ulla; Palokangas, Tapio K. - 2014

In this document, we consider the effects of a land reform on economic and demographic growth by a family-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...

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Gary Becker on the quantity and quality of children

Doepke, Matthias - 2014

the quantity-quality tradeoff to later work linking the economics of fertility to the theory of economic growth. …

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Declining fertility and economic well-being : do education and health ride to the rescue?

Prettner, Klaus; Bloom, David E.; Strulik, Holger - 2012

It is widely argued that declining fertility slows the pace of economic growth in industrialized countries through its negative effect on labor supply. There are, however, theoretical arguments suggesting that the effect of falling fertility on effective labor supply can be offset by associated...

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Public expenditure, demography and growth : theory and evidence from India

Pranab Kumar Das; Kar, Saibal - 2016

Many countries in the developed world are ageing in terms of their distribution of population. Conversely, a number of countries in the south have younger population. India for example, has 60% of its population in the age group of 15-59, with the mean age close to 27 years as of present times....

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Social security and endogenous demographic change: child support and retirement policies

Cipriani, Giam Pietro; Fioroni, Tamara - 2021

This paper studies retirement and child support policies in a small, open, overlapping-generations economy with PAYG social security and endogenous retirement and fertility decisions. It demonstrates that neither fertility nor retirement choices necessarily coincide with socially optimal...

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A soul's view of the optimal population problem

De la Croix, David; Doepke, Matthias - 2021

A long-standing challenge for welfare economics is to develop welfare criteria that can be applied to allocations with different population levels. Such a criterion is essential to resolve the optimal population problem, i.e., the tradeoff between population size and the welfare of each person...

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Samuelson's contributions to population theory and overlapping generations in economics

Lee, Ronald Demos - 2019

Paul Samuelson made a series of important contributions to population theory for humans and other species, evolutionary … theory, and the theory of age structured life cycles in economic equilibrium and growth. The work is highly abstract but much …

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