Do High Birth Rates Hamper Economic Growth?

By Hongbin Li, Junsen Zhang. Review of Economics and Statistics, 2007

193 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Gender Studies, General Health Professions, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health

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In Gender Studies

1. Jonathan D. Ostry
2. Michaela Draganska
3. Ulrich Doraszelski
4. C. Clark
5. Robert Clark
6. Haoming Liu

In General Health Professions

1. Andrew Berg
2. Michaela Draganska
3. Ulrich Doraszelski
4. C. Clark
5. Robert Clark
6. Haoming Liu

In Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health

1. Michaela Draganska
2. Ulrich Doraszelski
3. C. Clark
4. Robert Clark
5. Haoming Liu

Citations in the corpus

• The past and future of knowledge-based growth (2012, unknown): “For the twentieth century a negative association between population growth and income or income growth has already been documented by several studies (e.g. Brander and Dowrik 1994; Kelley and Schmidt 1995; Ahituv 2001; Li and Zhang 2007; Herzer et al. 2012).”
• The quality–quantity trade-off: evidence from the relaxation of China’s one-child policy (2014, background): “Several authors (Scharping 2003; Qian 2009; Li and Zhang 2007) have pointed out that the one-child policy is implemented differently between Han Chinese and ethnic minorities, and the differences vary across time and regions.”
• Redistribution, inequality, and growth: new evidence (2018, background): “See also Li and Zhang (2007) and Acemoglu and Johnson (2007), who use various external instruments to identify independent negative effects of fertility and population growth on GDP per capita.”
• When does FDI matter? The roles of local institutions and ethnic origins of FDI (2013, background): “…rate (INVR) measured by the ratio of fixed investment to GDP, population growth (POPG) which may hamper economic growth given limited resources (Li & Zhang, 2007), labor quality (LQUA) measured by the share of college graduates in the population which is expected to boost economic growth in…”
• The effect of advertising on brand awareness and perceived quality: An empirical investigation using panel data (2009, methodology): “This is an appealing methodology that has been widely applied (e.g., Acemoglu and Robinson 2001; Durlauf et al. 2005; Zhang and Li 2007) because valid instruments are often hard to come by.”