Demographic Change and Technological Progress

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25870954
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Economic theory; Economic policy
• Research Institution: Kwansei Gakuin University
• Principal Investigator: TABATA Ken 関西学院大学, 経済学部, 教授 (20362634)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 人口構造変化 / 人口の高齢化 / 経済成長 / 社会保障政策 / 研究開発活動

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study constructs the model which examines how demographic changes (i.e., an increase in life expectancy or a decline in fertility rate) affect economic growth and welfare through their influences on household’s saving and education decisions or firm’s R&D and production activities. This study also examines the growth and welfare effects of child rearing subsidy policy, child education subsidy policy, and social security reform. This study contributes the existing literature by examining the interactions between demographic structure and economic growth by focusing on the aspects that existing studies have been ignored.

Free Research Field

社会科学：経済学・マクロ経済学・経済成長論