The timing of the demographic transition and economic growth

Matteo Cervellati, Gerrit Meyerheim and Uwe Sunde

Economics Letters, 2019, vol. 181, issue C, 43-46

Abstract: This research provides novel evidence that the time since the onset of the demographic transition affects growth dynamics across countries and within countries. This sheds light on a factor that has been neglected in the existing empirical growth literature.

Keywords: Empirical growth; Long-run development; Demographic transition (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E24 O11 O15 O47 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2019.04.022

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