Long-term determinants of the demographic transition, 1870-2000

Review of Economics and Statistics

Volumn 95, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 617-631

  Murtin, Fabrice ^a  

^a OECD   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881117532     PISSN: 00346535     EISSN: 15309142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/REST_a_00302     Document Type: Article

References (58)

1. Acemoglu, D.,&S. Johnson, "Disease and Development: The Effect of Life Expectancy on Economic Growth," Journal of Political Economy 115 (2007), 925-985
2. Aghion, P., P. Howitt, and F. Murtin, "The Relationship between Health and Growth: When Lucas Meets Nelson-Phelps," Review of Economics and Institutions 2 (2011), 1-24
3. Arellano, M., and S. Bond, "Some Tests of Specification for Panel Data: Monte Carlo Evidence and an Application to Employment Equations," Review of Economic Studies 58 (1991), 277-297
4. Bairoch, P., Victories and Vexations: Economic and Social History of the World of XVIe Century at Our Days (Paris: Gallimard, 1997)
5. Barro, R. J., and G. Becker, "Fertility Choice in a Model of Economic Growth," Econometrica 57 (1989), 481-501
6. Becker, G., A Treatise on the Family (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1981)
7. Becker, G. S., K. M. Murphy, and R. Tamura, "Economic Growth, Human Capital and Population Growth," Journal of Political Economy 98 (1990), l2-37
8. Bloom, D. E., and J. G. Williamson, "Demographic Transitions and Economic Miracles in Emerging Asia," World Bank Economic Review 12 (1998), 419-455
9. Blundell, R., and S. Bond, "Initial Conditions and Moment Restrictions in Dynamic Panel Data Models," Journal of Econometrics 87 (1998), 115-143
10. Bourguignon, F., and C. Morrisson, "Inequality among World Citizens: 1820-1992," American Economic Review 92 (2002), 727-744
11. Caldwell, W. J., "Toward a Restatement of Demographic Transition Theory," Population and Development Review 2 (1976), 321-366
12. Chesnais, J-C., La transition demographique (Paris: PUF, 1986)
13. Coale, A. J., and S. C. Watkins, The Decline of Fertility in Europe: The Revised Proceedings of a Conference on the Princeton European Fertility Project (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1986)
14. Cutler, D., A. S. Deaton, and A. Lleras-Muney, "The Determinants of Mortality," Journal of Economic Perspectives 20 (2006), 97-120
15. De la Croix, D., and M. Doepke, "Inequality and Growth: Why Differential Fertility Matters," American Economic Review 93 (2003), 1091- 1113
16. Doepke, M., "Accounting for Fertility Decline during the Transition to Growth," Journal of Economic Growth 9 (2004), 347-383
17. Doepke, M., "Child Mortality and Fertility Decline: Does the Barro-Becker Model Fit the Facts?" Journal of Population Economics 17 (2005), 337-366
18. Doepke, M., Hazan M., and Y. Maoz, "The Baby Boom and World War II: A Macroeconomic Analysis," NBER working paper 13707 (2007)
19. Doepke, M., and F. Zilibotti, "The Macroeconomics of Child Labor Regulation," American Economic Review 95 (2005), 1492-1524
20. Ehrlich, I., and F. T. Lui, "Intergenerational Trade, Longevity, Intrafamily Transfers and Economic Growth," Journal of Political Economy 99 (1991), 1029-1059
21. Fogel, R. W., The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700-2100 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004)
22. Galor, O., "The Demographic Transition and the Emergence of Sustained Economic Growth," Journal of the European Economic Association 3 (2005), 494-504
23. Galor, O., Unified Growth Theory (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011)
24. Galor, O., and O. Moav, "From Physical to Human Capital Accumulation: Inequality and the Process of Development," Review of Economic Studies 71 (2004), 101-126
25. Galor, O., and D. N. Weil, "The Gender Gap, Fertility, and Growth," American Economic Review 86 (1996), 375-387
26. Galor, O., and D. N. Weil, "From Malthusian Stagnation to Modern Growth," American Economic Review 84 (1999), 150-154
27. Galor, O., and D. N. Weil, "Population,Technology and Growth: From the Malthusian Regime to the Demographic Transition," American Economic Review 110 (2000), 806-828
28. Haines, M. R., "Occupation and Social Class during Fertility Decline: Historical Perspectives," in John R. Gillis, Louise A. Tilly, and David Levine (eds.), The European Experience of Declining Fertility, 1850-1970. The Quiet Revolution (Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1992)
29. Haveman, R., and B.Wolfe, "The Determinants of Children's Attainments: AReviewof Methods and Findings," Journal of Economic Literature 33 (1995), 1829-1878
30. Hazan, M., "Longevity and Lifetime Labor Supply: Evidence and Implications," Econometrica 77 (2009), 1829-1863
31. Hazan, H., and B. Berdugo, "Child Labor, Fertility, and Economic Growth," Economic Journal 112 (2002), 810-828
32. Kalemli-Ozcan, S., "Does Mortality Decline Promote Economic Growth?" Journal of Economic Growth 7 (2002), 1-23
33. Kalemli-Ozcan, S., H. E. Ryder, and D. N.Weil, "Mortality Decline, Human Capital Investment and Economic Growth," Journal of Development Economics 62 (2000) 1-23
34. Lee, R., "The Demographic Transition: Three Centuries of Fundamental Change," Journal of Economic Perspectives 17 (2003), 167- 190
35. Lindert P., Growing Public (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004)
36. Lipset S. M., Political Man: The Social Base of Politics (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1960)
37. Lleras-Muney, A., "The Relationship between Education and Adult Mortality in the U.S.," Review of Economic Studies 72 (2005), 189- 221
38. Lorentzen, P., J. McMillan, and R. Wacziarg, "Death and Development," Journal of Economic Growth 13 (2008), 81-124
39. Mackenbach, J. P., C. U. Looman, A. E. Kunst, J. D. Habbema, and P. J van der Mass, "Post-1950 Mortality Trends and Medical Care: Gains in Life Expectancy due to Declines in Mortality from Conditions Amenable to Medical Intervention," Social Science and Medicine 27 (1988), 889-894
40. Maddison, A., The World Economy (Paris: Development Centre OECD, 2001)
41. Maurin, E., "The Impact of Parental Income on Early SchoolingTransitions: A Re-examination Using Data over Three Generations," Journal of Public Economics 85 (2002), 301-332
42. McKeown T., "The Modern Rise of Population (London: Edward Arnold, 1976)
43. Mitchell, B. R., International Historical Statistics: The Americas, 1750- 1993 (New York: Stockton Press, 2003a)
44. Mitchell, B. R., International Historical Statistics: Europe, 1750-1993 (New York: Stockton Press, 2003b)
45. Mitchell, B. R., International Historical Statistics: Africa, Asia and Oceania, 1750- 1993 (New York: Stockton Press, 2003c)
46. Moav, Omer, "Cheap Children and the Persistence of Poverty," Economic Journal 115 (2005), 88-110
47. Morrisson, C., and F. Murtin, "The Century of Education," Journal of Human Capital 3 (2009), 1-42
48. Morrisson, C., and F. Murtin, "The Kuznets Curve of Human Capital Inequality: 1870-2010," Journal of Economic Inequality (2013, forthcoming)
49. Murtin, F. and R. Wacziarg, "The Democratic Transition," NBER working paper 17432 (2011)
50. Nerlove, M., "Households and Economy: Toward a New Theory of Population and Economic Growth," Journal of Political Economy 82 (1974), 200-218
51. O'Rourke, K., and J.Williamson, Globalization and History: The Evolution of a 19th Century Atlantic Economy (Cambridege, MA: MIT Press, 1999)
52. Roodman, D., "How to Do xtabond2: An Introduction to 'Difference' and 'System' GMM in Stata," Center for Global Development, working paper 103 (2006)
53. Roodman, D., "A Note on the Theme of Too Many Instruments," Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics 71 (2009), 135-158
54. Soares, R., "Mortality Reductions, Educational Attainment, and Fertility Choice," American Economic Review 95 (2005), 580-601
55. Tamura, R., "From Decay to Growth: A Demographic Transition to Economic Growth," Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 20 (1996), 1237-1262
56. United Nations Population Division,World Population Prospects: The 2006 Revision (New York: United Nations, 2006)
57. Weil, D., and J. Wilde, "How Relevant Is Malthus for Economic Development Today?" American Economic Review (Papers and Proceedings) 99 (2009), 255-260
58. Windmeijer, F., "A Finite Sample Correction for the Variance of Linear Efficient Two-StepGMMEstimators," Journal of Econometrics 126 (2005), 25-51