Arbeitspapier
Population, Population Density, and Technological Change
In a model on population and endogenous technological change, Kremer combines a short-run Malthusian scenario where income determines the population that can be sustained, with the Boserupian insight that greater population spurs technological change and can therefore lift a country out of its Malthusian trap. We show that a more realistic version of the model, which combines population and population density, allows deeper insights into these processes. The incorporation of population density also allows a superior interpretation of the empirical regularities between the level of population, population density, population growth, and economic development, both at aggregated and disaggregated levels.
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: IAI Discussion Papers ; No. 100
Bevölkerungsentwicklung
Bevölkerungsdichte
Endogener technischer Fortschritt
Technischer Fortschritt
Theorie
Welt
Nestmann, Thorsten
- Handle
- Last update
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12.07.2024, 1:22 PM CEST
Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Klasen, Stephan
- Nestmann, Thorsten
- Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Ibero-America Institute for Economic Research (IAI)
Time of origin
- 2004