In recent research age distribution effects on the current account have been found in cross-country panel regressions. The reason is different effects on saving and investment from cohort-size variation. In a panel of annual OECD data 1960-1995, we find that the age effects on saving are similar...

This paper addresses the issue of optimum population with two concerns : avoiding both the absolute repugnant solution that amounts to giving to an infinite number an infinitesimal amount and the marginal repugnant solution in which equilibrium consumption decresases with income. To avoid these...

This paper addresses the issue of optimal population with two concerns: avoiding both the absolute repugnant solution that amounts to giving to an infinite number an infinitesimal amount and the marginal repugnant solution in which equilibrium consumption decreases with income. To avoid these...

It is generally accepted that moving from an unfunded to a funded social security system implies a welfare loss for the trasition generation, that is the generation that has to pay twice: first, saving for this own retirement and second, contributing to the pensions of the then retired...

This work investigates the links between fertility choice, the dynamics ofincome distribution and economic growth. We use a simple model of fertility choice in conjunction with the well-documented differences in returns to human capital accross rich and poor to model the co-determination of...

This case study illustrates how applied demographic analysis can help structure business decisionmaking. We screened every one of several thousand square miles within metropolitan Southern California to identify the 10 best locations for a large supermarket catering to one-stop shoppers.

This paper presents a new approach to the description of household size distributions. It has been found that a Poisson distribution can be used to approximate the observed household size distribution in terms of a single parameter, namely the average household size, where empty habitable...

The emerging field of corporate demography views corporations and industries in a similar way to human or animal individuals and groups. This review essay examines what economists, particularly industrial organization specialists, and corporate demographers can learn from each other. The two...

The ratio of women to men in India reveals excess female mortality by comparison with developed countries; this excess is socially not naturally determined. Juvenile sex ratios combine excess male infant mortality in poor health environments with excess female child mortality due to...