Nature

The demographic transition and economic growth: implications for development policy

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 ...
JSTOR Daily

The Economic and Demographic Transition, Mortality, and Comparative Development

This paper develops a quantifiable unified growth theory to investigate cross-country comparative development. The calibrated model can replicate the historical development dynamics in forerunner ...
JSTOR Daily

Urban-Rural Differences as a Function of the Demographic Transition: Egyptian Data and an Analytical Model

American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 69, No. 5 (Mar., 1964), pp. 476-490 (15 pages) Data from contemporary Egypt refute almost all the generalizations about urban-rural demographic differences that ...
International Monetary Fund

Demographic Transition and Pension Reforms: Adding Demographics to GIMF

Benjamin Carton, Emilio Fernández Corugedo, Benjamin L Hunt, and Simon Voigts. "Demographic Transition and Pension Reforms: Adding Demographics to GIMF", IMF Working ...
San Francisco Fed

Demographic Transition and Low U.S. Interest Rates

Interest rates have been trending down for more than two decades. One possible explanation is the dramatic worldwide demographic transition, with people living longer and population growth rates ...