The Economic Consequences of Demographic Change in East Asia
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Acknowledgments
Introduction
Takatoshi Ito and Andrew K. Rose
I. Economic Growth
1. The Demographic Transition and Economic Growth in the Pacific Rim
Andrew Mason, Ronald Lee, and Sang- Hyop Lee
Comment: Jocelyn E. Finlay
Comment: Jong- Wha Lee
2. Population Aging and Economic Growth in Asia
David E. Bloom, David Canning, and Jocelyn E. Finlay
Comment: Roberto S. Mariano
Comment: Kwanho Shin
3. Demographic Transition, Human Capital Accumulation, and Economic Growth: Some Evidence from Cross- Country and Korean Microdata
Chin Hee Hahn and Chang- Gyun Park
Comment: Meng- chun Liu
Comment: Chulhee Lee
II. Japan
4. Japan’s Unprecedented Aging and Changing Intergenerational Transfers
Naohiro Ogawa, Andrew Mason, Amonthep Chawla, and Rikiya Matsukura
Comment: Worawan Chandoevwit
Comment: Alejandro N. Herrin
5. Pension Issues in Japan: How Can We Cope with the Declining Population?
Noriyuki Takayama
Comment: Worawan Chandoevwit
Comment: Hyungpyo Moon
6. The Effects of Demographic Change on Public Education in Japan
Fumio Ohtake and Shinpei Sano
Comment: Dae Il Kim
Comment: Chang- Gyun Park
III. Korea
7. Intergenerational Transfers and Old- Age Security in Korea
Hisam Kim
Comment: Jiyeun Chang
8. Labor Force Participation of Older Males in Korea: 1955 to 2005
Chulhee Lee
Comment: Kyungsoo Choi
Comment: Fumio Ohtake
IV. China and Hong Kong
9. Long- Term Effects of Early- Life Development: Evidence from the 1959 to 1961 China Famine
Douglas Almond, Lena Edlund, Hongbin Li, and Junsen Zhang
Comment: Ronald Lee
Comment: Naohiro Ogawa
10. Demographic Transition, Childless Families, and Economic Growth
Francis T. Lui
Comment: Hongbin Li
Comment: Roberto S. Mariano
Contributors
Author Index
Subject Index
Economics and Business: Economics--International and Comparative
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