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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
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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
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013173243
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012137079
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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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Women's education and fertility in China
Zhang, Zheyuan; Zhao, Zhong - 2023
Using data from the China Family Panel Studies, this paper exploits the Compulsory Education Law of China implemented in the 1980s to empirically examine the causal impact of women's education on fertility in rural China by difference-in-differences methods. The results show that an additional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013499179
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Economic foundations of contraceptive transitions : theories and a review of the evidence
Karra, Mahesh; Wilde, Joshua - 2023
We review the foundations of the economic development-contraception nexus, focusing on the pathways through which economic factors drive contraceptive adoption and change. We investigate the channels through which the relationship between economic development and contraceptive dynamics are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013500602
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The fertility transition in sub-Saharan Africa : the role of structural change
Büttner, Nicolas; Grimm, Michael; Günther, Isabel; … - 2023
Despite the recent economic growth in many countries on the African continent, the region has seen a slow fertility transition. In this study, we explore whether the lack of structural economic change can explain this slow fertility transition. We create a unique panel data set combining...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014228925
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Governance, fertility transition and economic development : cross-country evidence ; East Asia and the case of China
Feng, Yi; Kugler, Jacek; Zak, Paul J. - In: The East Asian development model : economic growth, …, (pp. 264-284). 2000
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001556843
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The fertility transition in Sub-Saharan Africa: The role of structural change
Büttner, Nicolas; Grimm, Michael; Günther, Isabel; … - 2022
Despite relatively sustained economic growth in at least parts of Sub-Saharan Africa over the past twenty years, the fertility transition has not much advanced in most countries in that region. We explore whether the lack of structural change can explain this slow transition. For this end, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013177193