Demographic change and long-run development / edited by Matteo Cervellati and Uwe Sunde.

Recent approaches to economic demography, investigating the effect of the transition to low mortality and low fertility on economic development.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Cervellati, Matteo (Editor), Sunde, Uwe (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, [2017]
Series:	CESifo seminar series.
Subjects:	Demographic transition. Economic development. economic development. Demographic transition Economic development
Online Access:	Click for online access

Table of Contents:

Contents
Series Foreword
Overview
Preface
1 The Demographic Transition and Long-Term Development
2 The Long Shadow of History: The Biogeographical Origins of Comparative Economic Development
3 Health Improvement and Income Growth in the Long Run
4 Did Longer Lives Buy Economic Growth? From Malthus to Lucas and Ben-Porath
5 Adult Mortality and Modern Growth
6 Human Physiological Development and Economic Growth
7 Intrahousehold Decision Making and Fertility
8 Land Inequality, Education, and Marriage: Empirical Evidence from Nineteenth-Century Prussia9 Long-Run Development and the New Cultural Economics
10 Time Since What? (Re)interpreting the Neolithic Transition in a Malthusian Environment
11 Caste Systems and Technology in Premodern Societies
12 Conclusion and Outlook
Contributors

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