Health, Demographic Transition and Economic Growth Jorgensen, Ole Hagen.
This paper develops a link between four central components of the demographic transition: survival rates; fertility decisions; altruistic intergenerational transfers from workers toward their parents; and economic growth. An increase in child survival is found to reduce the fertility rate and altrui...
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2010.
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