Orthodoxy and Revisionism in American Demography

Hodgson, Dennis

doi:10.2307/1973624

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“…Theoretically, there are three alternative views regarding fertility (population)/economic development nexus (Hodgson, 1988 andBlanchet, 1991). The first is the 'Malthusian' or 'Orthodox' view that rapid population leads to poverty primarily because population expansion implies a declining capital to labour ratio and leads to chronic food shortages and foreign exchange bottlenecks.…”

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Fertility, human capital, and macroeconomic performance: long-term interactions and short-run dynamics

Darrat

Yousef

2004

Applied Financial Economics

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Long-run interactions and short-run dynamics among the fertility rate, the accumulation of human capital and macroeconomic performance are examined in several developing countries. While fertility and human capital influence how fast countries grow as traditionally believed, it is argued that both of these growth-promoting factors may themselves be driven by income changes. Past research also neglects the theoretical possibility that the growth consequences of fertility and human capital are inherently slow to develop and require broader models that incorporate long- as well as short-term effects. Two main inferences emerge from the empirical analysis: (a) there exists a robust long-term (cointegrating) relation linking together fertility, human capital and economic growth in all countries studied. Thus, the failure of previous studies to account for the underlying long-term relation could seriously bias their inferences regarding the impact of fertility and/or human capital on economic growth in developing countries, and (b) coherent evidence is also obtained from a whole range of tests and models supportive of a pivotal role of human capital accumulation in shaping macroeconomic performance in the sample.

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Fertility, human capital, and macroeconomic performance: long-term interactions and short-run dynamics

Darrat

Yousef

2004

Applied Financial Economics

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“…In the early 20 th century, it was expected that populace development would contrarily impact capital aggregation and technological change and because of this, , the problem of a decreasing fertility rate became relevant for many countries, and policies were designed to invert this trend. (Hodgson, 1988). The world population began to decline in the mid-1970s when, in numerous developed nations, the working-age populations (aged between 25-59 years) started to increase faster than the child population (Lee et al, 2011).…”

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Aging in India- The Role of State in Health care

Verma

2016

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“…Policymakers and demographers also highlighted the urgency of population control in Asia for its political implications: the problem of overpopulation would become a hazard not only in Asia but in the whole world, because the consequence of stagnant development was thought to be a breeding ground for communism (Hodgson, 1988).…”

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Compressed modernity and glocal entanglement: The contested transformation of parenting discourses in postwar Taiwan

Lan

2014

Current Sociology

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This article examines the contested transformation of parenting discourses in postwar Taiwan as a case of global sociology. The author argues that such transformative change embodies Taiwan's compressed condition of modernity, entangled with a variety of global forces and transnational connections. This article looks at two critical periods of discursive transformation, including a top-down project marked by US aid and the family planning programme during the 1950s and 1960s, and a bottom-up campaign activated by transnational elites to advocate schooling reform and parental education in the postMartial Law period. The author raises the concept 'glocal entanglement' to describe the cultural and institutional entanglements between societies under asymmetrical power relations, and emphasizes that parents across class divides had differential access to globalization and uneven relations with the modernity projects.The fertility rate in Taiwan has dropped to one of the lowest in the world. However, an organized family planning programme sponsored by the US, which urged fertile couples to reduce the number of children for quality childcare, took place only half a century ago.

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Orthodoxy and Revisionism in American Demography

Cited by 96 publications

References 56 publications

Fertility, human capital, and macroeconomic performance: long-term interactions and short-run dynamics

Fertility, human capital, and macroeconomic performance: long-term interactions and short-run dynamics

Aging in India- The Role of State in Health care

Compressed modernity and glocal entanglement: The contested transformation of parenting discourses in postwar Taiwan

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