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The demography of Indonesia in comparative perspective

McDonald, Peter - In: Bulletin of Indonesian economic studies 50 (2014) 1, pp. 29-52

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Lorentzen, Peter L.; McMillan, John; Wacziarg, Romain T. - 2019

Analyzing a variety of cross-national and sub-national data, we argue that high adult mortality reduces economic growth … by shortening time horizons. Higher adult mortality is associated with increased levels of risky behavior, higher … better health care implies that mortality could be the source of a poverty trap. In our regressions, adult mortality explains …

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Gender equity and the escape from poverty

Prettner, Klaus; Strulik, Holger - 2014

We set up a unified growth model with gender-specific differences in tastes for consumption, fertility, education of daughters and sons, and consider the intra-household bargaining power of spouses. In line with the empirical regularity for less developed countries, we assume that mothers desire...

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Birth, death, and development : a simple unified growth theory

Strulik, Holger (contributor); Weisdorf, Jacob (contributor) - 2008

relationship between child mortality and net reproduction observed in industrialized countries over the course of their demographic … transitions. The model captures the intricate interplay between technological progress, mortality, fertility and economic growth … demographic variables. -- Economic growth ; mortality ; fertility ; structural Change ; industrial revolution. …

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[Rezension von: Population matters, demographic change, economic growth, and poverty in the developing world, [on 2 - 6 November 1998 the Symposium on Population Change and Economi...

Tuljapurkar, Shripad - In: Journal of economic literature 42 (2004) 2, pp. 545-547

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Malthusian stagnation is efficient

Córdoba Muñoz, Juan C.; Liu, Xiying - In: Theoretical economics : TE ; an open access journal in … 17 (2022) 1, pp. 415-460

This article studies socially optimal allocations, from the point of view of a benevolent social planner, in environments characterized by fixed resources, endogenous fertility, and full information. Individuals in our environment are fully rational and altruistic toward their descendants. Our...

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Cause of death and development in the US

Hansen, Casper Worm - In: Journal of development economics 109 (2014), pp. 143-153

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Natural selection, technological progress, and the origin of human longevity

Grall, Lothar - 2016

This paper suggests that feedback effects between technological progress and human longevity lie at the heart of their common emergence in human history. It connects two major research questions. First, the long life span after menopause is a unique but puzzling feature of humans among primates....

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Endogenous fertility, mortality and growth

Blackburn, Keith; Cipriani, Giam Pietro - In: Journal of population economics 11 (1998) 4, pp. 517-534

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The simplest unified growth theory

Strulik, Holger; Weisdorf, Jacob - 2007

This paper provides a uni?ed growth theory, i.e. a model that explains the very long-run economic and demographic development path of industrialized economies, stretching from the pre-industrial era to present-day and beyond. Making strict use of Malthus’ (1798) so-called preventive check...

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