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Degrees of development: how geographic latitude sets the pace of industrialization and demographic change
Strulik, Holger - 2008
Successful economic development is usually characterized by two salient phenomena: industrialization and demographic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264936
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Geography, Health, and the Pace of Demo-Economic Development
Strulik, Holger - 2007
, tropical locations. Placed into a macroeconomic framework this behavior creates an indirect channel through which geography …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262975
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2008 Lawrence R. Klein lecture - Comparative economic development: Insights from unified growth theory
Galor, Oded - 2009
This paper explores the implications of Unified Growth Theory for the origins of existing differences in income per capita across countries. The theory sheds light on three fundamental layers of comparative development. It identifies the factors that have governed the pace of the transition from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284035
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The simplest unified growth theory
Strulik, Holger; Weisdorf, Jacob - 2007
This paper provides a uni?ed 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/10010265680
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Birth, death, and development: a simple unified growth theory
Strulik, Holger; Weisdorf, Jacob - 2008
This study provides a unified growth theory to correctly predict the initially negative and subsequently positive relationship between child mortality and net reproduction observed in industrialized countries over the course of their demographic transitions. The model captures the intricate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265688
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How child costs and survival shaped the industrial revolution and the demographic transition: A theoretical inquiry
Strulik, Holger; Weisdorf, Jacob - 2010
This study provides a uni ed growth theory to correctly predict the initially negative and subsequently positive relationship between child mortality and net reproduction observed in industrialized countries over the course of their demographic transitions. The model captures the intricate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270039
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The fertility transition in Sub-Saharan Africa: The role of structural change
Büttner, Nicolas; Grimm, Michael; Günther, Isabel; … - 2022
world using a novel regional level panel dataset created by matching Demographic and Health Surveys and Household Income …-agricultural formal jobs and industrialization as measured by an increase in nighttime light intensity are indeed important determinants … of the fertility transition. We also find suggestive evidence for a complementary role of access to health insurance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013177193
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The Fertility Transition in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Role of Structural Change
Büttner, Nicolas; Grimm, Michael; Günther, Isabel; … - 2023
. We create a unique panel data set combining Demographic and Health Surveys, Household Income Surveys, and nighttime light … intensity data, as an indicator for industrialization, from 57 countries at the sub-national regional level over three decades … also highlights the important role of increased female labor force participation in the formal sector, industrialization …
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Fertility and Modernity
Spolaore, Enrico; Wacziarg, Romain - 2019
We investigate the determinants of the fertility decline in Europe from 1830 to 1970 using a newly constructed dataset of linguistic distances between European regions. We find that the fertility decline resulted from a gradual diffusion of new fertility behavior from French-speaking regions to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012052851
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Life expectancy and economic growth: the role of the demographic transition
Cervellati, Matteo; Sunde, Uwe - 2009
In this paper we investigate the causal effect of life expectancy on economic growth by explicitly accounting for the role of the demographic transition. In addition to focusing on issues of empirical identification, this paper emphasizes the role of the econometric specification. We present a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269079