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Decomposing Fertility Differences Across World Regions and Over Time : Is Improved Health More Important than Women's Schooling?
Behrman, Jere; Duryea, Suzanne; Szekely, Miguel - 2011
economic outcomes. These shifts are triggered by changes in fertility and mortality that take place some years before becoming … countries in the world are still experiencing, or probably about to experience, fertility declines. This paper first … characterizes differences in fertility and mortality and in related dependency ratios across regions and over time. The paper then …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014159746
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The Demographic Transition and the Emergence of Sustained Economic Growth
Galor, Oded - 2005
fertility rates and population growth in various regions of the world, enabling economies to convert a larger share of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014069583
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Population aging and economic growth : from demographic dividend to demographic drag?
Kotschy, Rainer; Bloom, David E. - 2023
This paper examines the extent to which changes in working-age shares associated with population aging might slow economic growth in upcoming years. We first analyze the economic effects of changing working-age shares in a standard empirical growth model using country panel data from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014326800
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Population aging and economic growth : from demographic dividend to demographic drag?
Kotschy, Rainer; Bloom, David E. - 2023
This paper examines the extent to which changes in working-age shares associated with population aging might slow economic growth in upcoming years. We first analyze the economic effects of changing working-age shares in a standard empirical growth model using country panel data from 1950-2015....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014332127
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Decomposing fertility differences across world regions and over time : is improved health more important than women's schooling?
Behrman, Jere R.; Duryea, Suzanne; Székely, Miguel - 1999
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001427952
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Decomposing fertility differences across world regions and over time : is improved health more important than women's schooling? ; background paper for the Economic and Social Prog...
Behrman, Jere R.; Duryea, Suzanne; Székely, Miguel - 1999
economic outcomes. These shifts are triggered by changes in fertility and mortality that take place some years before becoming … countries in the world are still experiencing, or probably about to experience, fertility declines. This paper first … characterizes differences in fertility and mortality and in related dependency ratios across regions and over time. The paper then …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011542224
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Chapter 2. Macroeconomics, Aging, and Growth
Lee, R. - In: Handbook of the economics of population aging : Volume 1, (pp. 59-118). 2016
and labor. Rising human capital investment per child accompanies the falling fertility that drives population aging, and … and productivity of the future labor force; and public programs that promote fertility by facilitating market work for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014023480
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The middle-income transition around the globe : characteristics of graduation and slowdown
Vandenberg, Paul; Poot, Lilibeth; Miyamoto, Jeffrey - 2015
The paper investigates the situation of middle-income economies around the world. Since 1965, only 18 economies with a population of more than 3 million and not dependent on oil exports have made the transition to being high income. Many more have not been able to move beyond the middle-income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010501267
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The deep determinants of the middle-income trap
Glawe, Linda; Wagner, Helmut - 2017
The fundamental, underlying factors of development are often neglected when analyzing the question why countries experience a growth slowdown at the middle-income range. Although these so-called `deep determinants' such as geography and institutions have been found to be decisive for the break...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012205933
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The deep determinants at more subtle stages of development : the example of the middle-income trap phenomenon
Glawe, Linda; Wagner, Helmut - 2017
The so-called 'deep determinants' of economic growth and development (namely, geography, institutions, and integration) have been found to be decisive for the break out of stagnation and for explaining cross-country income differences by many empirical studies. However, so far, very little has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012205937