This paper revisits demographic dividend issues after almost 2 decades of debate. In 1998, David Bloom and I used a … has come to call the “demographic dividend.” These early estimates seem to be similar to those coming from more recent … overlapping generation models, when properly estimated. Research has shown that the demographic dividend is not simply a labor …

We propose a unified growth theory to investigate the mechanics generating the economic and demographic transition, and …

This paper explores the implications of Unified Growth Theory for the origins of existing differences in income per … capita across countries. The theory sheds light on three fundamental layers of comparative development. It identifies the …

This paper explores the implications of Unified Growth Theory for the origins of existing differences in income per … capita across countries. The theory sheds light on three fundamental layers of comparative development. It identifies the …

alternative theory that would capture in a single unified framework the contemporary era of sustained economic growth, the epoch … the recent transition between these distinct regimes. The advancement of unified growth theory was fueled by the … conviction that the understanding of the contemporary growth process would be limited and distorted unless growth theory would be …

This paper explores the implications of Unified Growth Theory for the origins of existing differences in income per … capita across countries. The theory sheds light on three fundamental layers of comparative development. It identifies the …

This research develops an expanded unified growth theory that incorporates the endogenous accumulation of physical …

We propose a unified growth theory to investigate the mechanics generating the economic and demographic transition, and …