. This paper hypothesizes that cities with more working-age adults are likely to grow faster than cities with more children …'s largest cities, across cities and over time. It then studies how age structure affects economic growth for a global cross …-section of mega-cities. Using various identification strategies, the analysis finds that mega-cities with higher dependency …

"Using 2005 firm level data for 26 countries in Eastern and Central Europe, this paper estimates performance gaps …