Arbeitspapier
R&D-based growth in the post-modern era
Conventional R&D-based growth theory suggests that productivity growth is positively correlated with population size or population growth, an implication which is hard to see in the data. Here we integrate micro-founded fertility and schooling into an otherwise standard R&D-based growth model. We then show how a Beckerian child quality-quantity trade-off explains why higher growth of productivity and income per capita are associated with lower population growth. The medium-run prospects for future economic growth - when fertility is going to be below replacement level in virtually all fully developed countries - are thus much better than predicted by conventional R&D-based growth theory.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Vienna Institute of Demography Working Papers ; No. 9/2010
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
Economic Development: General
Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights: General
Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity: General
- Thema
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Endogenous growth
R&D
declining population
fertility
schooling
human capital
postmodern society
post-transitional fertility
Technischer Fortschritt
Bevölkerungsentwicklung
Fertilität
Humankapital
Sozialer Wandel
Neue Wachstumstheorie
Theorie
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Strulik, Holger
Prettner, Klaus
Prskawetz, Alexia
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), Vienna Institute of Demography (VID)
- (wo)
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Vienna
- (wann)
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2010
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Strulik, Holger
- Prettner, Klaus
- Prskawetz, Alexia
- Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), Vienna Institute of Demography (VID)
Entstanden
- 2010