Compared to other factors, the role of the age distribution of the population as a key endogenous determinant of economic growth trajectories has traditionally been overlooked. This is unrealistic, especially when dealing with major epochs of structural change, such as demographic transitions....

Several efforts in the area of demo-economic interactions have been motivated by the need to provide sound mathematical foundations for the very popular "Easterlin cycle". Among these we recall the classical contributions by Lee (1974) and Samuelson (1976), and the more recent efforts by...