In 1986, two Dutch researchers advanced a provocative hypothesis: many societies were undergoing a “Second Demographic Transition” that would lead to durably low birth rates and high degrees of ...

This blog post quantifies impact of demographic shifts and finds that they lowered unemployment rate by approximately 0.4 ...

This paper uses a perfect foresight life cycle simulation model to examine the dynamic economic effects of baby "booms" and baby "busts" as well as the interaction of such demographic changes with ...

Demographic Research, Vol. 33 (JULY - DECEMBER 2015), pp. 561-588 (30 pages) BACKGROUND In the last half of the previous century many developed countries went through a period of decreasing fertility ...

Source: BlacknoseDace/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 It seems we are surrounded by a generation of singles. Therapy sessions, workshops, and the psychology literature are fixated on the ultimate ...

I recently moved back to Russia after spending more than two decades away – and I found a country quite different from the one I left in the late 1990s. The development journey that Russia has ...

Rising incomes, increasing levels of education — particularly in women — and a variety of social factors contribute to determining the demographic profile of India’s youth and their role in India’s ...

Access these resources as a member - it's free! Lei Xiaoyan from Peking University discussed five major demographic trends in China that will have significant policymaking implications for the future.

Every day in the Asia Pacific, millions of goods, financial products, services and people flow across borders. These movements are both a cause and consequence of the rapid economic growth enjoyed in ...

AS BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS go, it was momentous. On November 24th India’s government declared that the country’s fertility rate had dropped to 2.0 children per woman. That is below the replacement rate—at ...