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What Determined the Fertility Rebound? The Empirical Evidence for 17 High-Income Countries
Lechman, Ewa - 2015
total fertility rate and its potential determinants, across 17 high-income economies, where the ‘fertility rebound … fertility rate in selected 17 high-income economies. Second, it examines which factors hypothetically determine the fertility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013023556
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Are environmental concerns deterring people from having children?
Lockwood, Ben; Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2022
Are 'green' environmental concerns - about climate change, biodiversity, pollution - deterring today's citizens from having children? This paper, which we believe to be the first of its kind, reports preliminary evidence consistent with that increasingly discussed hypothesis. Our study has a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013414750
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What Rates of Productivity Growth Would Be Required to Offset the Effects of Population Aging? A Study of Twenty Industrialised Countries
Denton, Frank - 2017
A shift in population distribution toward older ages is underway in industrialised countries throughout the world and will continue well into the future. We provide a framework for isolating the pure effects of population aging on per capita GDP, employ the framework in calculations for twenty...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012954249
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Inter-ethnic redistribution and human investments
Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2009
of less prosperous ethnic minorities raises fertility among the unskilled minority recipients, lowers fertility among the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010336073
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The demographic transition: Causes and consequences
Galor, Oded - 2012
the rise in the demand for human capital in the process of development was the main trigger for the decline in fertility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282290
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The long-run determinants of fertility: One century of demographic change 1900 - 1999
Herzer, Dierk; Strulik, Holger; Vollmer, Sebastian - 2010
We examine the long-run relationship between fertility, mortality, and income using panel cointegration techniques and … for a major part of the fertility change characterizing the demographic transition. The change of mortality alone, however …, different measures of mortality, and the sample period. In addition, our causality tests suggest that fertility is both …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289008
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Select birth cohorts
MacMinn, Richard D.; Weber, Frederik - 2009
Worldwide demographic changes and their implications for governments, corporations, and individuals have been in the focus of public interest for quite some time due to the fiscal risk related to adequate retirement benefits. Through a more detailed analysis of mortality data an additional type...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003861095
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The demographic transition : causes and consequences
Galor, Oded - 2012
the rise in the demand for human capital in the process of development was the main trigger for the decline in fertility … and the transition to modern growth. -- demographic transition ; gender gap ; human capital ; fertility ; mortality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009530744
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Inter-ethnic redistribution and human investments
Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2009
of less prosperous ethnic minorities raises fertility among the unskilled minority recipients, lowers fertility among the …. -- redistribution ; ethnic diversity ; fertility ; human capital ; economic growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003798541
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Demographic Changes and Economic Growth : an Empirical Analysis
Narciso, Alexandre - 2016
In this paper, we examine the overall effect of demographic transition on economic growth in the context of globalization. Theoretical foundations are based on the Solow–Swan model extended to include demographic variables. The GDP growth is modeled by using fixed effects unbalanced panel data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012984627