Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/175350 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
KIT Working Paper Series in Economics No. 113
Publisher: 
Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre (ECON), Karlsruhe
Abstract: 
This paper answers the following two questions: 1) In the data, can we find a dilution effect of population growth also on per-capita human capital investment? If yes, 2) how can we use this fact to explain theoretically the existence of a differential impact of population change on economic growth across countries? In the first part of the article we document empirically the considerable across-countries heterogeneity of a dilution effect of population growth also in regard to the process of per-capita human capital formation and observe that, at a country's level, population growth may be relevant (either positively or negatively) for economic growth depending on the specific way it affects the process of schooling-acquisition by agents. In the second part of the paper we use these results in order to build a multi-sector growth model which is capable of accounting (depending on the strength of the found dilution effect of population growth on per-capita human capital formation) for the non-monotonous correlation between demographic and economic growth rates in the long-run.
Subjects: 
Human Capital Investment
Economic Growth
Population Growth
Dilution Effects
Research & Development
JEL: 
J10
J24
O33
O41
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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