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decline on demographic and economic growth by a family-optimization model, in which fertility is endogenous and wealth yields … population growth, but the desire of status hampers fertility and prevents capital-diluting demographic expansion. If status …-seeking is strong, then the decline of mortality decreases population growth below its original level. -- mortality ; population …
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This article examines pollution and environmental mortality in an economy where fertility is endogenous and output is … pollution-induced mortality but also shifts resources to the clean sector. If the dirty sector is more capital intensive, then … decreasing fertility and the population size. Correspondingly, if the clean sector is more capital intensive, then the emission …
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decline in child mortality rate followed by similar trend in fertility rate, hence, population growth rate. …This paper extends the literature on economic growth and demographic change by developing a neo-classical model of … endogenous growth in which both economic and demographic outcomes are jointly determined. The key point in this model is the …
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This article examines pollution and environmental mortality in an economy where fertility is endogenous and output is … pollution-induced mortality but also shifts resources to the clean sector. If the dirty sector is more capital intensive, then … decreasing fertility and the population size. Correspondingly, if the clean sector is more capital intensive, then the emission …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012966043
Economic and demographic outcomes are determined jointly in a choice-theoretic model of fertility, mortality and … long-run endogenous growth with short-run transitional dynamics. The analysis yields testable time series and cross …
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This paper presents a fertility choice model in which the mortality rate is also endogenously determined and health … expenditure provides utility to individuals as well as affects the mortality rate. The analysis shows that the model predictions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005687646
decline on demographic and economic growth by a family-optimization model, in which fertility is endogenous and wealth yields … population growth, but the desire of status hampers fertility and prevents capital-diluting demographic expansion. If status …-seeking is strong, then the decline of mortality decreases population growth below its original level …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131422
growth for the transitional dynamics. We find that i) higher survival induces economic growth through higher savings and … higherlabor force participation; ii) longevity-induced reductions in fertility hampereconomic development; iii) the positive life … expectancy effects of larger savingsand higher labor force participation outweigh the negative effect of a reductionin fertility …
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administrative vital statistics, we find that birth control clinics accounted for 5.0-7.8% of the overall fertility decline until … infant mortality. The effect of birth control clinics on puerperal deaths is consistently negative, yet insignificant …
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administrative vital statistics, we find that birth control clinics accounted for 5.0-7.8% of the overall fertility decline until … infant mortality. The effect of birth control clinics on puerperal deaths is consistently negative, yet insignificant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014275980