On Aggregate Empirical Studies Relating Population Variables to Economic Development

Dados Bibliográficos

ID7980299
AutoresJulian L Simon (autor correspondente)
Ano1989
Volume15
Fascículo2
Páginas323
Data de publicação1989-06-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoPopulation and Development Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0098-7921 • E-ISSN: 1728-4457
EditoraJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/1973707
OpenAlexW2072700039
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas20
Referências citadas6

Empirical studies of the cross-national relationship between the rates of economic development and population growth may reasonably be interpreted as providing consistently strong evidence of the absence of a negative causal effect of the latter upon the former. The most important positive effects of additional people--improvement of productivity through the contribution of new ideas and the learning-by-doing resulting from increased production volume--appear in the long run and are cumulative. Together with this positive long-term effect the absence of an observed negative medium-term effect upon economic growth is adduced as sufficient evidence that in the very long run more people have a positive net effect. (SUMMARY IN FRE AND SPA) (EXCERPT)

Aggregate (composite) · Econometrics · Economics · Population · Sociology · Demography · Economic Growth and Productivity · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth · Income, Poverty, and Inequality