Example of Literature Matrix

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highlight certain key

factors of population and
economic growth and has
attempted to illustrate the
per capita income,
per capita income, fertility
causal links between: per
fertility rates,
and lagged fertility rates,
capita income, fertility
technological
Brandon
technological
and lagged fertility rates,
China
advancement,
Lozeau
advancement, education
technological
education, population
and India
(2007)
and family planning
advancement, education
control policy, and
services and the aspects
and family planning
government
the government.
services (or population
intervention
control policies in the case
of China), and the aspects
the government is able to
affect.
Mohamma 1) simple
population and per
using
income growth induces a
Population growth and
China
d S. Hasan theoretical model capita income growth income per capita
annual data decline in population
(2010)
spanning
growth in the long-run.
of Nelson (1956)
the period The findings also indicate
which links
19521998 a significant interplay
population
between economic growth
growth and per
and population growth in
capita income
the short-run. A variety of
growth in a
theoretical models
bivariate
attempted to explain this
framework
interrelationship.
2) the
cointegration
methodology
with a vector
error correction
model (VECM) to

Author
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Rural
China

1)a significant portion of

the sharp increase of
income inequality at the
beginning of this decade
can be attributed to
demographic change.
Population aging is
emerging as an important
matter of policy issue in
developing countries, and
1997, 2000
its relationship with
and 2006
income inequality has
received little attention.
2) the degree of
population aging, increase
of inequality in the
examination period, and
contribution of population
aging to inequality are all
much more severe in rural
China.

Findings

identify the
short-run and
long-run
interdependencie
s and the causal
linkage between
population and
per capita
income

1) The
Hai
ZHONG
(2011)

conventional
approach
2) the Shapley
value
decomposition
method

household data, and

income here refers to Population aging and
per capita household income inequality
income

Author
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the share of the workingage population has a

positive impact on
economic growth,
1)Population(labor
whereas the population
participation
growth rate has a
rate,industrial
Shenglong A simple
negative impact. As
five-year
Liu,
population growth rate is
theoretical
initial per capita GDP and
structure)
periods
Angang Hu model(CD and
positively correlated with
the share of the working(1983
population growth. The
the Solow growth 2)Institutional
age population
2008)
theoretical founding of
theory)
(2013)
variables(investme
China
this paper means that the
nt rate, literate,
birth rate has a negative
government size)
impact on economic
growth
1) the coefficient of the
growth differential
between the population of
working age and the total
population is positive and
cross-section as
Misbah T.
significant while that of
China,
well as the panel
Choudhry ,
growth rate of GDP
the child dependency
data approach
19612003
Time-period fixed effects India,
J. Paul
per capita
ratio is negative and
and test for
Pakistan
Elhorst
significant
endogeneity
2) population dynamics
explain 46 percent of
economic growth in per
capita GDP in China over
the period 19612003

Author
(Year)

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Time Period

Findings

Fang Cai,
Meiyan
Wang
(2006)

Panel
Zheng Wei
data(Extended
, Rui Hao
convergence )
(2010)
equation

region dummies and period

dummies, geographic,
the provincial growth control variables, the initial
rate of GDP per
level of log GDP per capita, China
capita
the initial level and growth
rate of the dependency
ratio,

1)Chinas rapid economic

growth has been
significantly attributable
to changes in
demographic structure.
2)
the
effect
of
19892004
demographic structure on
growth appears to be
more pronounced in the
long-run through affecting
the steady-state level of
income.