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The demographic transition the move from a high fertility/high mortality regime into a low fertility/low mortality … and increasing speed of transitions. It also produces a strong correlation between the speeds of fertility transition and …
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The demographic transition -the move from a high fertility/high mortality regime into a low fertility/low mortality … and increasing speed of transitions. It also produces a strong correlation between the speeds of fertility transition and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013382030
We set up an endogenous growth model in which the efficiency of both capital and fossil energy can be improved, whereas … states: one stagnant where energy is fully derived from the alternative energy source, and one with balanced growth where …
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physical capital to study the interaction of international capital flows and growth. Analytically, we study conditions under … long-term growth via the accumulation of human capital. Our mechanism shows how a small initial difference in the level of …
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We develop a classical macroeconomic model to examine the growth and distributional consequences of education. Contrary … to the received wisdom, we show that human capital accumulation is not necessarily growth-inducing and inequality …-reducing. Expansive education policies may foster growth and reduce earning inequalities between workers, but only by transferring income …
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pollution intensity. Countries' growth rates are determined endogenously, and abatement efficiency is improved by technical …
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migration affected fertility by building a decennial bilateral migration matrix between French regions for 1861-1911. The … suggest the convergence towards low birth rates can be explained by the diffusion of low-fertility norms by migrants …
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Higher fertility slowly increases the workers-to-retirees ratio over the long run, which can ease the pension financing …-productivity profiles and pension systems can explain the exception. Fertility-promoting policies will always ease the public finance …
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The historical increase in emissions is for one-fourth attributable to the growth of emissions per person, whereas … three-fourths are due to population growth. This striking evidence is not represented in the majority of climate … the interactions between climate change and population dynamics. We develop an analytical model of endogenous fertility …
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In this paper, we examine the relationship between temperature and human conception rates and project the impacts of climate change by the mid-twenty-first century. Using complete administrative data on 6.8 million pregnancies between 1980 and 2015 in Hungary, we show that exposure to hot...
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