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The Relevance of Malthus for the Study of Mortality Today : Long-Run Influences on Health, Mortality, Labor Force Participation, and Population Growth
Fogel, Robert W. - 2021
This paper argues that the secular decline in mortality, which began during the eighteenth century, is still in progress and will probably continue for another century or more. The evolutionary perspective presented in this paper focuses not only on the environment, which from the standpoint of...
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The Old Age Security Hypothesis and Population Growth
Willis, Robert J. - 2022
developing countries. This paper presents a theoretical model which integrates micro-level decision making about fertility and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013309359
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On the Relationship between Mobility, Population Growth, and Capital Spending in the United States
Bassetto, Marco - 2011
In this paper, we investigate the relationship between public capital spending and population dynamics at the state level. Empirically, we document two robust facts. First, states with faster population growth do not spend more (per capita) to accommodate the needs of their growing population....
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From Population Growth to Firm Demographics : Implications for Concentration, Entrepreneurship and the Labor Share
Hopenhayn, Hugo A. - 2018
The US economy has undergone a number of puzzling changes in recent decades. Large firms now account for a greater share of economic activity, new firms are being created at a slower rate, and workers are getting paid a smaller share of GDP. This paper shows that changes in population growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012906315
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Did Railroads Induce or Follow Economic Growth? Urbanization and Population Growth in the American Midwest, 1850-60
Atack, Jeremy - 2010
For generations of scholars and observers, the quot;transportation revolution,quot; especially the railroad, has loomed large as a dominant factor in the settlement and development of the United States in the nineteenth century. There has, however, been considerable debate as to whether...
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Population and Regulation
Mulligan, Casey B.; Shleifer, Andrei - 2021
We present a model of efficient regulation along the lines of Demsetz (1967). In this model, setting up and running regulatory institutions takes a fixed cost, and therefore jurisdictions with larger populations affected by a given regulation are more likely to have them. Consistent with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013222996
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Population Growth, Labor Supply, and Employment in Developing Countries
Bloom, David E.; Freeman, Richard B. - 2022
supply of accelerated population growth due to changes in fertility, mortality, and migration; patterns and trends in labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013309249
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Efficiency with Endogenous Population Growth
Golosov, Mikhail - 2006
who are not born. We show how these concepts relate to the notion of Pareto-efficiency when fertility is exogenous. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012783878
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Population Growth and Carbon Emissions
Casey, Gregory P. - 2016
We provide evidence that lower fertility can simultaneously increase income per capita and lower carbon emissions …, eliminating a trade-off central to most policies aimed at slowing global climate change. We estimate the effect of lower fertility … on carbon emissions accounting for the fact that changes in fertility patterns affect carbon emissions through three …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012978094
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Africa's Lagging Demographic Transition : Evidence from Exogenous Impacts of Malaria Ecology and Agricultural Technology
Conley, Dalton - 2014
Much of Africa has not yet gone through a quot;demographic transitionquot; to reduced mortality and fertility rates …. The fact that the continent's countries remain mired in a Malthusian crisis of high mortality, high fertility, and rapid …, econometric estimation is complicated by endogeneity among fertility and other variables of interest. We attempt to improve …
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