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		| Kazuhiro  Yamamoto and Ken  Tabata | 
	
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		| ''Sectorial sift, inverted U-shaped fertility dynamics, and growth'' | 
	
		| ( 2006, Vol. 10 No.5 ) | 
	
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		| This paper constructs a small open two-sector overlapping-generations model with the subsistence level of consumption of agricultural goods and explains the following key stylized facts in the process of economic development: increases followed by declines in fertility rate, increases in human capital investment for children, and a sectorial shift in labor from agriculture to manufacture. | 
	
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		| Keywords: Demographic transition  Sectorial sift  Economic development | 
	
		| JEL: J1 - Demographic Economics: General O1 - Economic Development: General
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		| | Manuscript Received : Jul 14 2006 |  | Manuscript Accepted : Jul 14 2006 | 
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