Demographic Change and Economic Development

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XII

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2. Theoretical Studies on Economic Change and Demographic Development

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Macroeconomic Models

      1. Malthusian Crises, Boserupian Escapes and Longrun Economic Progress

         • Gunter Steinmann

         Pages 3-28

      2. Endogenous Fluctuations in the Barro-Becker Theory of Fertility

         • Jess Benhabib, Kazuo Nishimura

         Pages 29-41

      3. Mortality Changes and Their Economic Consequences, with Particular Reference to Cause of Death

         • J. H. Pollard

         Pages 42-69

   3. Policy Issues

      1. Market Failure, Population Growth and Government Intervention in a Life-Cycle Growth Model

         • Norbert Berthold, Michael Pflüger

         Pages 73-93

      2. Capital Accumulation and Population Growth in Two Sector Closed and Open Economies

         • Benjamin Bental

         Pages 94-115

      3. “Population Drag” and the Role of the International Sector

         • H. Peter Gray

         Pages 116-129

   4. Microeconomic Models

      1. The Timing of Births: A Theory of Fertility, Family Expenditures and Labour Market Participation Over Time

         • Alessandro Cigno

         Pages 133-151

      2. Equilibrium and Efficiency in Intergenerational Transfers

         • Uri Ben-Zion, Mark Gradstein

         Pages 152-165

3. Applied Studies on Economic Change and Demographic Development

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 167-167

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   2. The Case of Hungary: A Historical Perspective

      1. Economic Change and Family Size in Hungarian Historical Demography

         • Robert A. Horváth

         Pages 169-182

      2. Demographic Change and Economic Development in Hungary Since the Second World War

         • Rudolf Andorka

         Pages 183-201

   3. Issues of Developing Countries

      1. A Case for Some Simple Analytics of Demographic Change and Economic Development

         • Shanti S. Tangri

         Pages 205-210

      2. Monetary Methods of Estimating Informal Activities in Developing Nations

         • Edgar L. Feige

         Pages 211-232

      3. Interaction Between Macro-Economic Activities and Demographic Changes in Selected Developing Countries

         • Dilip Bhattacharyya

         Pages 233-250

   4. Demographic Economic Models

      1. An Extension of a Static Input-Output Model for Demographic-Economic Analysis

         • M. Luptácik, I. Schmoranz

         Pages 253-271

      2. Consumption, Savings and Demography

         • Rob J. M. Alessie, Arie Kapteyn

         Pages 272-305

      3. A Flexible Programming Model to Study Problems of Population Economics

         • Bernard M. S. van Praag, Menno P. Pradhan

         Pages 306-324

4. Back Matter

   Pages 325-325

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In recent years, population economics has become increasingly popular in both economic and policy analysis. For the inquiry into the long term development of an economy, the interaction between demographic change and economic activity cannot be neglected without omitting major aspects of the problems. This volume helps to further developments in theoretical and applied demographical economics covering the issues of demographic change and economic development. The interaction between demographic change and economic development in the long run is one central issue. One conjecture is that it is mainly the relative population pressure which controls the pace of economic development. However, econometric evidence presented in the book does not support this hypothesis. Other papers deal with the relationships between fertility and business cycle fluctuations, the timing of births, the efficiency in intergenerational transfers, the role of open economies for the population issue, historical perspectives of demographic change in Hungary and an outline of recent developments of applied modelling using input-output models, programming models or econometric techniques.

• Demographic Changes
• Demographic change
• Demography
• Historical Demography
• developing countries
• economic development
• economics
• economy
• fertility
• mortality
• population
• population economics
• population growth

• Lehrstuhl für Wirtschaftstheorie, Fernuniversität Hagen, Hagen 1, Germany

  Alois Wenig

• Fakultät für Volkswirtschaftslehre und Statistik, Universität Mannheim, Mannheim 1, Germany

  Klaus F. Zimmermann

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