In traditional societies it is often argued that parents' desire for old age security in the form of transfers from their children provides an important motive for childbearing. Some doubt has been cast on this "old age security hypothesis" by recent estimates which suggest that the rate of...

New insights - from new data - on the relationship between population growth, factor accumulation, and productivity.In research on how population growth affects economic performance, some researchers stress that population growth reduces the natural resources and capital (physical and human) per...

We analyse the effects of declining population growth on automation. Theoretical considerations imply that countries with lower population growth introduce automation technologies faster than those with higher population growth. We test the theoretical implication on panel data for 60 countries...