TY - BOOK ID - 133597010 TI - Health, Demographic Transition and Economic Growth PY - 2010 PB - Washington, D.C., The World Bank, DB - UniCat KW - Access to Finance KW - Child health KW - Child survival KW - Decline in fertility KW - Declines in mortality KW - Demographic factors KW - Demographic Transition KW - Dependency ratios KW - Economic Growth KW - Economic implications KW - Economic Theory & Research KW - Emerging Markets KW - Fertility KW - Fertility rate KW - Finance and Financial Sector Development KW - Health KW - Health Monitoring & Evaluation KW - Human capital KW - Macroeconomics and Economic Growth KW - Mortality KW - Number of children KW - Nutrition and Population KW - Old age KW - Policy Research KW - Policy Research Working Paper KW - Population dynamics KW - Population Policies KW - Private Sector Development KW - Progress KW - Survival rate UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:133597010 AB - This paper develops a link between four central components of the demographic transition: survival rates; fertility decisions; altruistic intergenerational transfers from workers toward their parents; and economic growth. An increase in child survival is found to reduce the fertility rate and altruistic transfers, and thereby increase the savings rate and the productivity growth rate. The analysis illustrates the key role of child health in the demographic transition. ER -