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Demographic transition and political stability : does corruption matter?

Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Witthuhn, Stefan - 2014 - This version: November 27, 2014

hypothesize that corruption matters in this nexus. Using panel data covering the period of 2002–2012 for more than 150 countries … total working age population (15-64 years old) and corruption on political stability. This finding is robust, controlling … between corruption and the youth population remains robust when we control for the persistency of political stability and the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010437952

Demographic transition and political stability : does corruption matter?

Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Witthuhn, Stefan - 2014

hypothesize that corruption matters in this nexus. Using panel data covering the period of 2002 - 2012 for more than 150 countries … total working age population (15 - 64 years old) and corruption on political stability. This finding is robust, controlling … between corruption and the youth population remains robust when we control for the persistency of political stability and the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010464999

Demographic Transition and Political Stability : Does Corruption Matter?

Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza - 2015

hypothesize that corruption matters in this nexus. Using panel data covering the period of 2002-2012 for more than 150 countries … total working age population (15-64 years old) and corruption on political stability. This finding is robust, controlling … between corruption and the youth population remains robust when we control for the persistency of political stability and the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013030326

Long-run growth and the evolution of technological knowledge

Hakenes, Hendrik; Irmen, Andreas - 2007 - This Version: March 20, 2007

The long-run evolution of per-capita income exhibits a structural break often associated with the Industrial Revolution. We follow Mokyr (2002) and embed the idea that this structural break reflects a regime switch in the evolution of technological knowledge into a dynamic framework, using Airy...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003592701

Demographic dynamics and long-run development : insights for the secular stagnation debate

Cervellati, Matteo; Sunde, Uwe; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2016

This paper takes a global, long-run perspective on the recent debate about secular stagnation, which has so far mainly focused on the short term. The analysis is motivated by observing the interplay between the economic and demographic transition that has occurred in the developed world over the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011537253

Little divergence in America : market access and demographic transition in the United States

Guldi, Melanie; Rahman, Ahmed S. - 2022

This paper assesses the causal impact of greater market access on demographic transition during the latter half of the 19th century in the United States. We construct new measures of fertility changes and measures of railroad access at the county level from 1850 - 1890. We are able to document...

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Bismarck's Health Insurance and the mortality decline

Bauernschuster, Stefan; Driva, Anastasia; Hornung, Erik - 2017 - This version: August 3, 2017

We investigate the impact on mortality of the world's first compulsory health insurance, established by Otto von Bismarck, Chancellor of the German Empire, in 1884. Employing a multi-layered empirical setup, we draw on international comparisons and difference-indifferences strategies using...

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Bismarck's health insurance and the mortality decline

Bauernschuster, Stefan; Driva, Anastasia; Hornung, Erik - 2018

We study the impact of social health insurance on mortality. Using the introduction of compulsory health insurance in the German Empire in 1884 as a natural experiment, we estimate flexible difference-in-differences models exploiting variation in eligibility for insurance across occupations. Our...

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The gender gap in education investment and the demographic transition in developing countries : theory and evidence

Nguyen Thang Dao; Dávila, Julio; Greulich, Angela - 2019

We propose a unified growth model linking technology, education investment across genders, and fertility to explain, for 20th century developing countries: (i) the demographic transition, (ii) the improvement in gender equality in education, and (iii) the transition to sustained growth. The...

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Fertility transitions in developing countries : convergence, timing, and causes

Papagni, Erasmo - 2018

This paper studies the dynamics of fertility in 180 countries in the period 1950ñ 2015 and investigates the determinants of the onset of fertility transitions. The application of Phillips and Sulís (2007) test to fertility rates provides evidence of convergence in three groups of countries....

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012130580

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