Product variety and the demographic transition

Ricardo Andrés Guzmán; Jacob Louis Weisdorf

doi:10.1016/j.econlet.2009.12.031

Product variety and the demographic transition

Ricardo Andrés Guzmán, Jacob Louis Weisdorf

Department of Economics

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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.

Original language	English
Journal	Economics Letters
Volume	107
Issue number	1
Pages (from-to)	74–76
Number of pages	3
ISSN	0165-1765
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2009.12.031
Publication status	Published - 2010

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