Demographic transition refers to the process whereby populations shift from regimes of high mortality and high fertility in approximate long-run equilibrium (zero population growth) to a new equilibrium at low levels of mortality and fertility. Most European and overseas European societies experienced such a transition between about 1870 and 1930. Formulation of theoretical explanations of the ...

A persistent, but little researched, theme in demographic transition theory is that of transition, especially fertility transition, lagging for cultural reasons behind changes in material circumstances. A sub-theme is that of the lag time being shortened by social upheaval challenging the cultural retardants and thus causing demographic behaviour to catch up with economic reality. This paper ex...

Abstract The population transition theory provides a macro-level overview where one can see the connection between social and economic development progression of transition. This study conducts systematic analysis Belarus’ immigration trends over last 30 years to investigate regularities generalities in its development. Research has shown that during this period demographic Belarus characterist...

Life Expectancy and Economic Growth: The Role of the Demographic Transition In this paper we investigate the causal effect of life expectancy on economic growth by explicitly accounting for the role of the demographic transition. In addition to focusing on issues of empirical identification, this paper emphasizes the role of the econometric specification. We present a simple theory of the econo...