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Differential Fertility, Human Capital, and Development
Vogl, Tom - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Using micro-data from 48 developing countries, I document a recent reversal in the income-fertility relationship and its aggregate implications. Before 1960, children from larger families had richer parents and obtained more education. By century's end, both patterns had reversed. Consequently,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951054
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Social Security, Demographic Trends, and Economic Growth: Theory and Evidence from the International Experience
Ehrlich, Isaac; Kim, Jinyoung - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
The worldwide problem with pay-as-you-go (PAYG) social security systems isn't just financial. This study indicates that these systems may have exerted adverse effects on key demographic factors, private savings, and long-term growth rates. Through a comprehensive endogenous-growth model where...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005248856
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A Dual Policy Paradox: Why Have Trade and Immigration Policies Always Differed in Labor-Scarce Economies
Williamson, Jeffrey Gale; Hatton, Timothy J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
Today's labor-scarce economies have open trade and closed immigration policies, while a century ago they had just the opposite, open immigration and closed trade policies. Why the inverse policy correlation, and why has it persisted for almost two centuries? This paper seeks answers to this dual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005087443
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Endogenous Fertility, Mortality and Economic Growth: Can a Malthusian Framework Account for the Conflicting Historical Trends in Population?
Ehrlich, Isaac; Kim, Jinyoung - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
at a fixed wage-income level because population growth tends to outstrip real output growth. Dynamic equilibrium with … constant income and population is achieved through equilibrating adjustments in "positive checks" (mortality, starvation) and … economic stagnation with high fertility and mortality and constant population and income, as predicted by Malthus, but also for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005710563
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Explaining Inequality the World Round: Cohort Size, Kuznets Curves, andOpenness
Williamson, Jeffrey Gale; Higgins, Matthew - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1999
Klaus Deininger and Lyn Squire have recently produced an inequality data base for a panel of countries from the 1960s to the 1990s. We use these data to decompose the sources of inequality into three central parts: the demographic or cohort size effect; the so-called Kuznets Curve or demand...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005710901
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The Value of Life in General Equilibrium
Jena, Anupam B.; Mulligan, Casey; Philipson, Tomas; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
such valuations differ is overstated when there are increasing returns to population and is understated under decreasing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005720142
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Has Social Security Influenced Family Formation and Fertility in OECD Countries? An Economic and Econometric Analysis
Ehrlich, Isaac; Kim, Jinyoung - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
in OECD countries, some of which already face the prospect of population decline as well. While the trend is largely the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005777761
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Demographic Transitions and Economic Miracles in Emerging Asia
Bloom, David; Williamson, Jeffrey Gale - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1997
-age population growing at a much faster pace than its dependent population during the period 1965-1990, thereby expanding the per … created by the transition. The empirical analyses indicate that population growth has a purely transitional effect on economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005778032
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The Evolution of Income and Fertility Inequalities over the Course of Economic Development: A Human Capital Perspective
Ehrlich, Isaac; Kim, Jinyoung - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2004
development. In our model, heterogeneous families determine fertility and children's human capital, and generations are linked via …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005778584
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The Determinants of Mortality
Cutler, David M.; Deaton, Angus; Lleras-Muney, Adriana - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006
Mortality rates have fallen dramatically over time, starting in a few countries in the 18th century, and continuing to fall today. In just the past century, life expectancy has increased by over 30 years. At the same time, mortality rates remain much higher in poor countries, with a difference...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005778725