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Life expectancy and economic growth : the role of the demographic transition
Cervellati, Matteo; Sunde, Uwe - 2009
the role of the econometric specification. We present a simple theory of the economic and demographic transition where … individuals' education and fertility decisions depend on their life expectancy. The theory predicts that before the demographic …. We provide evidence supporting these predictions using data on exogenous mortality reductions in the context of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003837588
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Life expectancy and economic growth : the role of the demographic transition
Cervellati, Matteo; Sunde, Uwe - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003875900
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Life Expectancy and Economic Growth : The Role of the Demographic Transition
Cervellati, Matteo - 2009
the role of the econometric specification. We present a simple theory of the economic and demographic transition where … individuals' education and fertility decisions depend on their life expectancy. The theory predicts that before the demographic …. We provide evidence supporting these predictions using data on exogenous mortality reductions in the context of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013159658
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How child costs and survival shaped the industrial revolution and the demographic transition
Strulik, Holger; Weisdorf, Jacob - In: Macroeconomic dynamics 18 (2014) 1, pp. 114-144
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The African tragedy : the effect of democracy on economic growth
Khodaverdian, Saeed - In: Empirical economics : a quarterly journal of the … 62 (2022) 3, pp. 1147-1175
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Contribution of demography to economic growth
Sánchez-Romero, Miguel; Abío, Gemma; Patxot, Concepció; … - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 9 (2018) 1, pp. 27-64
From 1850 to 2000, in Western European countries life expectancy rose from 30–40 to 80 years and the average number of children per woman fell from 4 to 5 children to slightly more than one. To gauge the economic consequences of these demographic trends, we implement an overlapping generations...
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Urbanization, long-run growth, and the demographic transition
Adams, Jonathan J. - In: Journal of demographic economics : JODE 88 (2022) 1, pp. 31-77
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The Demographic Transition : Causes and Consequences
Galor, Oded - 2011
This paper develops the theoretical foundations and the testable implications of the various mechanisms that have been proposed as possible triggers for the demographic transition. Moreover, it examines the empirical validity of each of the theories and their significance for the understanding...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013125156
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The Demographic Transition : Causes and Consequences
Galor, Oded - 2012
This paper develops the theoretical foundations and the testable implications of the various mechanisms that have been proposed as possible triggers for the demographic transition. Moreover, it examines the empirical validity of each of the theories and their significance for the understanding...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013110845
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The demographic transition : causes and consequences
Galor, Oded - 2011
"This paper develops the theoretical foundations and the testable implications of the various mechanisms that have been proposed as possible triggers for the demographic transition. Moreover, it examines the empirical validity of each of the theories and their significance for the understanding...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009130501