The Demographic Transition and the Emergence of Sustained Economic Growth

By Oded Galor. 2005

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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From Stagnation to Sustained Growth: The Role of Female Empowerment (2013, background): “5 See Galor (2005) and Doepke (2007) for recent survey.”
Long-Term Determinants of the Demographic Transition, 1870–2000 (2013, background): “According to unified growth theory (Galor & Weil, 1999, 2000; Galor, 2005, 2011), the demographic transition played a crucial role in the economic development of nations, as it facilitated the shift from a Malthusian world with stagnating income to a modern growth era with sustained technological…”
The Economic and Demographic Transition, Mortality, and Comparative Development (2013, unknown): “as in Galor and Weil (2000). (43)For instance concerning historical data for England and Wales, child mortality fell substantially from around 20 percent in the period 1550-1600 to less than 0.”
Fertility, female labor force participation, and the demographic dividend (2009, unknown): “There are several theories on how the demographic transition has affected economic development ( Galor 2005 ) and it should be noted that even with a fixed factor such as land increasing returns to scale in the production of physical or human capital may allow population growth to go hand in hand wi”
Do Labor Market Opportunities Affect Young Women's Work and Family Decisions? Experimental Evidence from India (2012, result): “…measures of women’s status, the results are also relevant to the literature on thecauses of thefertility transitionexperiencedbymanyWestern countries from the mid-nineteenth tothe mid-twentieth centuries and by many developing countries today (Schultz 2002, 2009; Galor2005a, 2005b; Guinnane2011).”
Institutions and Economic Growth in Historical Perspective (2014, background): “The same importance of the institutional system as a whole emerges from the survey in Lesson 7 of historical demography, which has come to play an increasingly important role in recent literature on economic growth (Galor, 2005a,b;Acemoglu, 2009; Guinnane, 2011).”
How do epidemics induce behavioral changes? (2009, unknown): “Also notice that utility depends on the number of surviving children, a feature which can also be found in evolutionary biology-based growth models à la Galor and Moav (2002). Finally, the general iso-elastic specification for utility terms is aimed for generality.”
The Child is Father of the Man: Implications for the Demographic Transition (2013, methodology): “As pointed out by Galor (2005a) The reversal in the fertility patterns in England .”
Fertility Theories: Can They Explain the Negative Fertility-Income Relationship? (2008, unknown): “See Galor (2005a) and Galor (2005b) for an extensive analysis and a critical survey of theories of the demographic transition.”
Demographic transitions: analyzing the effects of mortality on fertility (2008, background): “Galor (2005a, 2005b) compares alternative explanations for the demographic transition but limits himself to a graphical analysis and does not consider the evidence from developing countries.”
Do Family Wealth Shocks Affect Fertility Choices? Evidence from the Housing Market (2013, background): “A large number of papers also link the higher incomes that came with the industrial revolution to the demographic transition of industrial countries (examples include Clark, 2005; Galor, 2005; Bar & Leukhina, 2010).”