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New Zealand Regions, 1986-2001: Population Dynamics
Pool, Ian; Baxendine, Sandra; Cochrane, William; … - Department of Economics, Waikato Management School - 2005
different factors: fertility, mortality and migration. A fourth factor that is often related, momentum, is analysed in a … increase (births and deaths) and migration, both domestic and international. We first present a review of population flows, and … then disaggregate these into their components; natural increase and net migration, so as to provide a demographic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005634997
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Population growth and carbon emissions
Casey, Gregory; Galor, Oded - 2016
We provide evidence that lower fertility can simultaneously increase income per capita and lower carbon emissions, eliminating a trade-off central to most policies aimed at slowing global climate change. We estimate the effect of lower fertility on carbon emissions accounting for the fact that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011565394
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Population Growth and Carbon Emissions
Casey, Gregory P. - 2016
We provide evidence that lower fertility can simultaneously increase income per capita and lower carbon emissions, eliminating a trade-off central to most policies aimed at slowing global climate change. We estimate the effect of lower fertility on carbon emissions accounting for the fact that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012978164
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Economic Implications of China's Demographics in the 21st Century
Cheng, Kevin - 2021
This study assesses the economic implications of China's changing population in the 21st century using a numerical general equilibrium model. The simulations show that lower fertility rates yield lower saving rates. Since lower fertility rates reduce the future supply of labor, capital will...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318027
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Population growth and carbon emissions
Casey, Gregory; Galor, Oded - 2016
We provide evidence that lower fertility can simultaneously increase income per capita and lower carbon emissions, eliminating a trade-off central to most policies aimed at slowing global climate change. We estimate the effect of lower fertility on carbon emissions accounting for the fact that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011569606
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Population growth and carbon emissions
Casey, Gregory; Galor, Oded - 2016
We provide evidence that lower fertility can simultaneously increase income per capita and lower carbon emissions, eliminating a trade-off central to most policies aimed at slowing global climate change. We estimate the effect of lower fertility on carbon emissions accounting for the fact that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011581727
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Fertility and population policy
Ouedraogo, Abdoulaye; Tosun, Mehmet Serkan; Yang, Jingjing - 2018
There have been significant changes in both the fertility rates and fertility perception since 1970s. In this paper, we examine the relationship between government policies towards fertility and the fertility trends. Total fertility rate, defined as the number of children per woman, is used as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012129952
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International family change and continuity: the past and future from of the developmental idealism perspective
Thornton, Arland - In: Demográfia English Edition 53 (2010) 5, pp. 21-50
I examine the international influence of developmental idealism in changing people’s beliefs and values, in producing family and demographic change, and in bringing cultural clashes within and between societies. Developmental idealism is a belief and value system stating that societal and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011272953
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Spillovers in childbearing decisions and fertility transitions : evidence from China
Rossi, Pauline; Xiao, Yun - 2020
This article uses China's family planning policies to quantify and explain spillovers in fertility decisions. We test whether ethnic minorities decreased their fertility in response to the policies, although only the majority ethnic group, the Han Chinese, were subject to birth quotas. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012233328
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Population Growth and Carbon Emissions
Casey, Gregory P. - 2017
We provide evidence that lower fertility can simultaneously increase income per capita and lower carbon emissions, eliminating a trade-off central to most policies aimed at slowing global climate change. We estimate the effect of lower fertility on carbon emissions accounting for the fact that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012965631