- together with standard growth models to frame the role of religion in economic growth. Unifying a growing literature, we argue … that religion can enhance or impinge upon economic growth through all four elements because it shapes individual … development. It affects human capital through both religious and secular education. It affects population and labor by influencing …

participation rate effect, but also a growth effect. Life-cycle savings, investment deepening, foreign capital flows, and schooling … have all been greatly affected by the demographic transition. The paper discusses just how much of these positive growth …

Life cycle savings is proposed as one explanation for much of the increase in savings and economic growth in Asia. The … fertility which changes the age compositions and could thereby account for savings and growth in Asia. … association between the age composition of a nation's population and its savings rate, observed within 16 Asian countries from …

This paper shows how growth and demography, two important determinants of the savings rate in the life-cycle approach …, explain a large part of the diversity in savings behavior in Asia across eight countries as well as over time. Inflation and …

–2050 and analyzes their impact on economic growth in terms of the first and second demographic dividends computed from the … obtained from Japan and Malaysia, we calculate the magnitude of the impact of that dividend on macroeconomic growth in each of …

Life cycle savings is proposed as one explanation for much of the increase in savings and economic growth in Asia. The … fertility which changes the age compositions and could thereby account for savings and growth in Asia. … association between the age composition of a nation's population and its savings rate, observed within 16 Asian countries from …