Quantifying the effects of the demographic transition in developing economies

Advances in Macroeconomics

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Attanasio, Orazio P ^a   Kitao, Sagiri ^b   Violante, Giovanni L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Capital flows; Demographic transition; Developing economies; Growth; Social security; Welfare

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750191057     PISSN: 15346013     EISSN: 15346013     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1534-6013.1298     Document Type: Article

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