Poverty, inequality, and fertility: the contribution of demographic change to global poverty reduction

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• dc.contributor.author Wietzke, Frank Borge
• dc.date.accessioned 2021-02-25T08:58:15Z
• dc.date.available 2021-02-25T08:58:15Z
• dc.date.issued 2020
• dc.description.abstract Global poverty has fallen dramatically over the past decades. In many developing countries, this transformation was accompanied by rapid improvements in demographic outcomes, such as falling child mortality and fertility. Yet, recent theorizing and empirical research into the causes of global poverty reduction has mostly omitted demographic factors. This paper aims to fill this gap by testing for effects of demographic variables on poverty. Using time series data for 140 countries, we document a strong effect of lagged fertility on country‐specific poverty rates. This effect is robust across several specifications and data sets. It appears to be stronger in countries with larger fertility differentials, in the early transition stages. The proposed mechanism behind this result is a “Kuznets curve‐type” expansion of fertility inequality at the onset of the demographic transition. We conclude by calling for a stronger inclusion of demographic variables in the distribution‐sensitive analysis of global poverty.
• dc.description.sponsorship This work was supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades) through its Academic Excellence and Societal Challenges initiative (Grant Number CSO2017‐87350‐P).
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• dc.identifier.citation Wietzke FB. Poverty, inequality, and fertility: the contribution of demographic change to global poverty reduction. Population and Development Review. 2020 Mar;46(1):65-99. DOI: 10.1111/padr.12317
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/padr.12317
• dc.identifier.issn 0098-7921
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/46588
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher Wiley
• dc.relation.ispartof Population and Development Review. 2020 Mar;46(1):65-99
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/2PE/CSO2017‐87350‐P
• dc.rights © 2020 The Authors. Population and Development Review published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of The Population Council. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, distributionand reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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• dc.subject.other Pobresa
• dc.subject.other Demografia
• dc.subject.other Fecunditat
• dc.subject.other Igualtat
• dc.title Poverty, inequality, and fertility: the contribution of demographic change to global poverty reduction
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