Round 1: The paper analyzes the validity of Wagner’s law in six East Asian countries during the period 1960- 2008.
What is the point of the dependency rate? The authors should expand on the need to add this variable and what exactly is it trying to capture. In the same vein, what do the authors mean by “however, it seems that the fall in young-dependency ratio was greater than the rise in the old-dependency rate” on p. 4?