Demographic change and economic growth: An inverted-U shape relationship

Economics Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 447-454

  An, Chong Bum ^a   Jeon, Seung Hoon ^b  

^a Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

^b The National Assembly Budget Office   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Demographic change; Inverted U shape relationship; Non parametric estimation

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748039128     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2006.03.030     Document Type: Article

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