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The Old Age Security Hypothesis and Population Growth
Willis, Robert J. - 1979
In traditional societies it is often argued that parents' desire for old age security in the form of transfers from their children provides an important motive for childbearing. Some doubt has been cast on this "old age security hypothesis" by recent estimates which suggest that the rate of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012478776
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Demographic Changes and International Factor Mobility
Helliwell, John F. - 2004
This paper reviews the extent and policy implications of linkages between demographic changes and international factor mobility. Evidence is found of significant demographic effects on both migration and the current account, but for different reasons neither increased migration nor international...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467742
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Population and Civil War
Acemoglu, Daron - 2017
Medical and public health innovations in the 1940s quickly resulted in significant health improvements around the world …
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The Demographic Transition : Causes and Consequences
Galor, Oded - 2011
This paper develops the theoretical foundations and the testable implications of the various mechanisms that have been proposed as possible triggers for the demographic transition. Moreover, it examines the empirical validity of each of the theories and their significance for the understanding...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461601
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The Wealth of Nations : Fundamental Forces Versus Poverty Traps
Bloom, David E. - 2002
We test the view the large differences in income levels we see across the world are due to differences in underlying … characteristics, i.e. fundamental forces, against the alternative that there are poverty traps. Taking geographical variables as … fundamental characteristics, we find that we can reject fundamental forces in favor of a poverty trap model with high and low …
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Measuring the Unequal Gains from Trade
Fajgelbaum, Pablo D. - 2014
Individuals that consume different baskets of goods are differentially affected by relative price changes caused by international trade. We develop a methodology to measure the unequal gains from trade across consumers within countries. The approach requires data on aggregate expenditures and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458336
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Was an Industrial Revolution Inevitable? Economic Growth Over the Very Long Run
Jones, Charles I. - 1999
This paper studies a growth model that is able to match several key facts of economic history. For thousands of years, the average standard of living seems to have risen very little, despite increases in the level of technology and large increases in the level of the population. Then, after...
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Demographics, Wealth, and Global Imbalances in the Twenty-First Century
Auclert, Adrien; Malmberg, Hannes; Martenet, Frederic; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We use a sufficient statistic approach to quantify the general equilibrium effects of population aging on wealth accumulation, expected asset returns, and global imbalances. Combining population forecasts with household survey data from 25 countries, we measure the compositional effect of aging:...
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Demographic Transitions Across Time and Space
Delventhal, Matthew J.; Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
The demographic transition --the move from a high fertility/high mortality regime into a low fertility/low mortality regime-- is one of the most fundamental transformations that countries undertake. To study demographic transitions across time and space, we compile a data set of birth and death...
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The End of Economic Growth? Unintended Consequences of a Declining Population
Jones, Charles I. - 2020
In many models, economic growth is driven by people discovering new ideas. These models typically assume either a constant or a growing population. However, in high income countries today, fertility is already below its replacement rate: women are having fewer than two children on average. It is...
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