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Demographic and Economic Consequences of the Post-war Mortality Decline in Developing Countries
Lehmijoki, Ulla; Palokangas, Tapio - Institut for Miljø og Erhvervsøkonomi, Syddansk … - 2010
Since World War II, mortality has decreased in the developing world. This paper explores the effects of this mortality …
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Capital accumulation and technical conditions along sustainable growth paths
Scarano, Giovanni - Dipartimento di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma 3 - 2013
The paper deals with the conditions of capital accumulation that can guarantee a sustainable pollution level and, consequently, a growing carrying capacity of the ecosphere for humankind. It follows an approach of ecological economics, utilising laws and models derived from the ecological...
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Population, Earth Carrying Capacity and Economic Growth
Scarano, Giovanni - In: Rivista di Politica Economica (2011) 2, pp. 149-166
This paper deals with the interaction between population growth and capital accumulation in an ecological perspective. Some demographic behaviours are modelled taking an ecological economics approach and combining the effects of technical progress geared to prevent decline in the marginal...
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The Simplest Unified Growth Theory
Strulik, Holger; Weisdorf, Jacob - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Leibniz … - 2007
This paper provides a unified growth theory, i.e. a model that explains the very long-run economic and demographic development path of industrialized economies, stretching from the pre-industrial era to present-day and beyond. Making strict use of Malthus' (1798) so-called preventive check...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005243324
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The Simplest Unified Growth Theory
Strulik, Holger; Weisdorf, Jacob - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
This paper provides a unified growth theory, i.e. a model that explains the very long-run economic and demographic development path of industrialized economies, stretching from the pre-industrial era to present-day and beyond. Making strict use of Malthus’ (1798) so-called preventive check...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123712
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Convergence in Growth Rates: The Role of Capital Mobility and International Taxation
Razin, Assaf; Yuen, Chi-Wa - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993
We consider the role of capital mobility and international taxation in explaining the observed diversity in long-term income growth rates. Under perfect capital mobility, international differences in taxes will not matter for total growth differentials. Policy differences have a role to play in...
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Convergence in Growth Rates: A Quantitative Assessment of the Role of Capital Mobility and International Taxation
Razin, Assaf; Yuen, Chi-Wa - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993
We provide an exploratory quantitive analysis of the role of capital mobility and international taxation in explaining the observed cross-country diversity in the long-run rates of growth of per capita and total incomes as well as the population growth rates. Corroborative evidence is found for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005656281
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Non-Monotonicity of Fertility in Human Capital Accumulation and Economic Growth
Boikos, Spyridon; Bucci, Alberto; Stengos, Thanasis - Department of Economics and Finance, College of … - 2012
This paper investigates the relationship between per-capita human capital investment and the birth rate. Since the consequences of higher fertility (birth rate) on per-capita human capital accumulation (the so-called dilution effect) are not the same (in sign and magnitude) across different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010597117
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Non-monotonicity of fertility in human capital accumulation and economic growth
Boikos, Spyridon; Bucci, Alberto; Stengos, Thanasis - In: Journal of Macroeconomics 38 (2013) PA, pp. 44-59
This paper investigates the relationship between per capita human capital investment and the fertility rate. In the first part of the article we analyze a theoretical model with endogenous birth rate in which we do not make any assumption on how fertility directly affects per capita human...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010719784
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How Child Costs and Survival Shaped the Industrial Revolution and the Demographic Transition: A Theoretical Inquiry
Strulik, Holger; Weisdorf, Jacob - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Leibniz … - 2010
relationship between child mortality and net reproduction observed in industrialized countries over the course of their demographic … transitions. The model captures the intricate interplay between technological progress, mortality, fertility and economic growth … demographic observation that fertility rates response with a delay to lower child mortality. It also identi es a number of turning …
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