Journal of Population Economics, Vol. 23, No. 1 (January 2010), pp. 99-120 (22 pages) The effect of mortality reductions on fertility is one of the main mechanisms stressed by the recent growth ...

Following the launch of the recent United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) report on the state of the world’s population, there has been much worry that the size of Bangladesh’s population has now ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This essay argues that demographic theory over the last half-century has substituted short-term explanations, often focusing on single ...

The Industrial Revolution that brought unprecedented economic growth to Western Europe and North America also coincided with a new epoch in population dynamics (Galor, 2005). Countries moved from a ...

A new World Bank report notes that the slow decline of fertility rates in Africa will likely result in a rapidly growing population of youth, with the region becoming a much larger part of the world ...