Demographic Change and Long-Run Development

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-0-262-03662-7
Verlag: MIT Press

Buch, Englisch, 368 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 640 g

Reihe: CESifo Seminar Series

Recent approaches to economic demography, investigating the effect of the transition to low mortality and low fertility on economic development.Over the last two hundred years, mortality and fertility levels in the Western world have dropped to unprecedented levels. This demographic transition was accompanied by an economic transition that led to widespread education and economic growth after centuries of near-stagnation. At the same time, other changes have occurred in family structures, culture, and the organization of society. Economists have only recently begun to take into account the demographic transition from high mortality and high fertility when modeling and researching economic development. This CESifo volume reviews recent approaches to economic demography, considering such topics as the bio-geographic origins of comparative development differences, the role of health improvements and mortality decline, as well as physiological, familial, cultural, and social aspects.After an overview of the study of demography and economic demography, the chapters cover subjects including the Neolithic era and the period of the formation of states and social institutions; longevity and economic growth; household decision making and fertility; land inequality, education, and marriage in nineteenth century Prussia; and caste systems and technology in pre-modern societies. The book concludes with a call for further investigation of the institutional and social factors that influence demographics and economies, suggesting that unified growth theory offers a potential approach to studying development.Contributors
Matteo Cervellati, Francesco Cinnirella, David de la Croix, Carl-Johann Dalgaard, Matthias Doepke, Elena Esposito, Davide Fiaschi, Tamara Fioroni, Oded Galor, Boris Gershman, Erik Hornung, Fabian Kindermann, Nils-Petter Lagerlöf, Holger Strulik, Uwe Sunde, David N. Weil

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cervellati, Matteo

Sunde, Uwe

Weitere Mitwirkende

Cervellati, Matteo

Sunde, Uwe

Galor, Oded

Weil, David N

Croix, David de la

Fiaschi, Davide

Fioroni, Tamara

Dalgaard, Carl-Johann

Strulik, Holger

Doepke, Matthias

Kindermann, Fabian

Cinnirella, Francesco

Hornung, Erik

Gershman, Boris

Lagerlöf, Nils-Petter

Esposito, Elena

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Demographie, Demoskopie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Sunde, Uwe
Uwe Sunde is Professor of Economics at the University of Munich.

Cervellati, Matteo
Matteo Cervellati is Professor of Economics at the University of Bologna.

Sunde, Uwe
Uwe Sunde is Professor of Economics at the University of Munich.

Cervellati, Matteo
Matteo Cervellati is Professor of Economics at the University of Bologna.