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| Title: | | Population, Population Density, and Technological Change  |
| Authors: | | Klasen, Stephan Nestmann, Thorsten |
| Issue Date: | | 2004 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Discussion Papers / Universität Göttingen, Ibero-Amerika-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung 100 |
| Abstract: | | 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. |
| JEL: | | N3 J1 O3 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Discussion Papers, IAI, Universität Göttingen
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