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Contribution of demography to economic growth

Sánchez-Romero, Miguel; Abío, Gemma; Patxot, Concepció; … - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 9 (2018) 1, pp. 27-64

From 1850 to 2000, in Western European countries life expectancy rose from 30–40 to 80 years and the average number of children per woman fell from 4 to 5 children to slightly more than one. To gauge the economic consequences of these demographic trends, we implement an overlapping generations...

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On the Typical Spectral Shape of an Economic Variable

Levy, Daniel C.; Dezhbakhsh, Hashem - 2010

In a classical article, Granger (1966) argued that the levels of most economic time series have spectra that exhibit a smooth declining shape with considerable power at very low frequencies. He termed it the typical spectral shape of an economic variable. Granger's assertion has not been...

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Evaluating alternatives to GDP as measures of social welfare/progress

Bergh, Jeroen C. J. M. van den; Antal, Miklós - 2014

Proposed alternatives to GDP as a measure of social welfare or human progress are briefly evaluated. Four main categories are considered, namely ISEW and GPI based on corrections of GDP, sustainable or green(ed) GDP, genuine savings/investments and composite indexes. All these alternatives turn...

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Economic growth, inequality, and well-being

Howarth, Richard B.; Kennedy, Kevin - In: Ecological economics : the transdisciplinary journal of … 121 (2016), pp. 231-236

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The Relative Richness of the Poor? Natural Resources, Human Capital, and Economic Growth

Bravo Ortega, Claudio; De Gregorio, Jose - 2005

Are natural resources a blessing or a curse? Bravo-Ortega and De Gregorio present a model in which natural resources have a positive effect on the level of income and a negative effect on its growth rate. The positive and permanent effect on income implies a welfare gain. There is a growth...

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Space, Mortality, and Economic Growth

Cupido, Kyran - 2020

At present, academic actuarial research involving the mortality modeling of multiple populations mainly focuses on … factor-based approaches. This comes with little attention to interpretable models of mortality that take patterns across … mortality modeling framework of Li and Lee (2005) to include spatial patterns. Speciﬁcally, in this paper, we study the …

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Medical Innovation, Life Expectancy, and Economic Growth

Kuhn, Michael; Minniti, Antonio; Prettner, Klaus; … - 2023

Despite an increasing recognition of the importance of health for economic growth, there is still a lack of understanding of the role of medical innovation in this process. Specifically, what are the causal effects of medical innovation on economic growth and which non-linearities matter in this...

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The Demographic Transition : Causes and Consequences

Galor, Oded - 2012

This paper develops the theoretical foundations and the testable implications of the various mechanisms that have been proposed as possible triggers for the demographic transition. Moreover, it examines the empirical validity of each of the theories and their significance for the understanding...

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Life Expectancy and Economic Growth : The Role of the Demographic Transition

Cervellati, Matteo - 2009

. We provide evidence supporting these predictions using data on exogenous mortality reductions in the context of the …

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Life expectancy and economic growth : the role of the demographic transition

Cervellati, Matteo; Sunde, Uwe - 2009

. We provide evidence supporting these predictions using data on exogenous mortality reductions in the context of the …

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