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JOURNAL OF POPULATION ECONOMICS
Volume 19, Issue 3, Pages 611-626Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00148-005-0031-1
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endogenous growth; population growth; population density
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In a model on population and endogenous technological change, Kremer (1993) 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 at aggregated and disaggregated levels.
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