Does Age Structure Forecast Economic Growth?

David E. Bloom, David Canning, Günther Fink, Jocelyn E. Finlay

NBER Working Paper No. 13221
Issued in July 2007

---- Acknowledgements -----

Earlier versions of this paper were presented at the East West Center in Hawaii, the Institute for Future Studies in Sweden, and the 2007 annual meetings of the Population Association of America. The authors are grateful to Dennis Ahlburg, Andrew Noymer, and two anonymous referees for thoughtful comments. Support for this research was provided by grant number 5 P30 AG024409 from the National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, and by grants from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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