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human population. Using a reconstructed genealogy for nearly half a million individuals in Quebec during the 1608 … level of fecundity that maximized long-run reproductive success was above the population average, indicating that natural … selection had decreased the level of fecundity in the population over this period. This evolutionary process may have …
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Prologue: opening the door on Malthus's rollercoaster -- Before Malthus: population, economy and environment in … eighteenth century England -- Prophets of perfection: a revolutionary triptych -- The first inconvenient truth: Malthus's essay … and the quiet revolution of 1798 -- "Diarrhoea of the intellect": Malthus as the malign muse of romanticism -- Malthus and …
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transition improvements in life expectancy primarily increase population. Improvements in life expectancy do, however, reduce … population growth and foster human capital accumulation after the onset of the demographic transition. This implies that the … effect of life expectancy on population, human capital and income per capita is not the same before and after the demographic …
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We construct a theory of intergenerational preference transmission that rationalizes the choice between alternative parenting styles (related to Baumrind 1967). Parents maximize an objective function that combines Beckerian and paternalistic altruism towards children. They can affect their...
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Welfare aspects of longevity increases are often discussed neglecting the complex relationship between longevity and economic growth, which is the focal point of another literature. Combining both perspectives, we develop an endogenous growth OLG-framework to investigate how longevity affects...
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We construct a theory of intergenerational preference transmission that rationalizes the choice between alternative parenting styles (related to Baumrind 1967). Parents maximize an objective function that combines Beckerian and paternalistic altruism towards children. They can affect their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009683250
This paper presents a non-Malthusian theory of long-term development We model the interplay between the process of human capital formation, technological progress, and the biological constraint of finite lifetime expectancy. All these processes are interdependent and determined endogenously. The...
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transition improvements in life expectancy primarily increase population. Improvements in life expectancy do, however, reduce … population growth and foster human capital accumulation after the onset of the demographic transition. This implies that the … effect of life expectancy on population, human capital and income per capita is not the same before and after the demographic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013159658
This article analyzes the effect of public policy intervention in the production of health capital on fertility, private investment in children's health and education and human capital accumulation. I have used a growth model with endogenous fertility, in which the usual parental trade-off...
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The data show that an increase in government provided old-age pensions is strongly correlated with a reduction in fertility. What type of model is consistent with this finding? We explore this question using two models of fertility: one by Barro and Becker (1989), and one inspired by Caldwell...
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