Overview

"From Malthus to Becker, the economic approach to population growth and its interactions with the surrounding economic environment has undergone a major transformation. ""Population Economics"" elucidates the theory behind this shift and the consequences for economic policy. The authors systematically examine the microeconomic implications of people's decisions about how many children to have and how to provide for them on population trends and social issues of population policy. The authors analyze how these decisions affect labour supply, consumption, savings and bequests, investments in human capital, and economic growth, along with related new issues such as migration and income redistribution across generations, in an integrated macroeconomic framework. ""Population Economics"" is a thoroughly modern treatment of population economics as a field in public economics. It integrates and extends Marc Nerlove's ""Household and Economy: Welfare Economics of Endogenous Fertility"", as well as work written jointly with colleagues that has appeared in various journals and other publications."

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Author:   Assaf Razin ,  Efraim Sadka
Publisher:   MIT Press Ltd
Imprint:   MIT Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.70cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.10cm
Weight:   0.635kg
ISBN:  

9780262181600

ISBN 10:   0262181606
Pages:   285
Publication Date:   02 February 1995
Audience:   Adult education ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Further / Higher Education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Stock Indefinitely
Availability:   Out of stock  

Table of Contents

Population dynamics - summary indicators. Part 1 The microeconomics of fertility and child quality: number and quality of children; children as a capital good. Part 2 Ethical considerations: social evaluation of population size. Part 3 Externalities and corrective population policies: Malthus's hypothesis; bequests as a public good and within marriage; bequests and child education - full information; bequests and child education - imperfect information. Part 4 Income distribution and social security: the intergenerational role of social security; intragenerational income destrbution policies; inter- and intragenerational distribution - the extended role of social security. Part 5 Growth and development: engines of growth; development and population - a survey. Part 6 Migration and trade: empirical regularities and trends; factor and goods mobility and international migration; normative issues of international migration.

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Assaf Razin is Mario Henrique Simonsen Professor of Public Economics at Tel Aviv University and Friedman Professor of International Economics at Cornell University. He is also a Research Associate at NBER, a Research Fellow at CEPR, and a Research Fellow at CESifo. Efraim Sadka is Henry Kaufman Professor of International Capital Markets at Tel Aviv University and a Research Fellow at CESifo.

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