Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/23862 
Year of Publication: 
2004
Series/Report no.: 
IAI Discussion Papers No. 100
Publisher: 
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Ibero-America Institute for Economic Research (IAI), Göttingen
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

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