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The fertility transition around the world
Strulik, Holger; Vollmer, Sebastian - In: Journal of Population Economics 28 (2015) 1, pp. 31-44
, we find both β- and σ -convergence but we cannot establish any convergence pattern for the high-fertility regime. Our … results support the idea of conditional convergence where the condition is the successful initiation of the fertility …
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Learning-by-doing, population pressure, and the theory of demographic transition
Strulik, Holger - In: Journal of Population Economics 10 (1997) 3, pp. 285-298
The present paper discusses the long-run effects of two interdependent relations between economic and population growth. According to a frequently used formulation of the population-push hypothesis, learning-by-doing effects in production lead to increasing returns to scale and, therefore, to a...
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