Product variety and the demographic transition
(2010) In Economics Letters 107(1). p.74-76- Abstract
- Why does the rate of population growth decline in the face of economic growth? We show that growing product variety may induce a permanent reduction in the demand for children and a continuous rise in income and consumption. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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- author
- Andres Guzman, Ricardo and Weisdorf, Jacob LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2010
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Demographic transition, Demand for children, Product variety, Malthus
- in
- Economics Letters
- volume
- 107
- issue
- 1
- pages
- 74 - 76
- publisher
- Elsevier
- external identifiers
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- wos:000276139900023
- scopus:77549088120
- ISSN
- 0165-1765
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.econlet.2009.12.031
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- bf63a251-7762-4cde-8b5a-bbbbca58b312 (old id 1587115)
- date added to LUP
- 2016-04-01 10:14:24
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