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Sex, Equality, and Growth (in that order)
Lagerlof, Nils-Petter - EconWPA - 2002
We set up a unified growth model capturing the transition of a primitive and egalitarian hunter-gatherer society, into an advanced and despotic early civilization, and finally into a more egalitarian industrial society. Agents are either landowners or landless; both earn income from human...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076730
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The Roads To and From Serfdom
Lagerlof, Nils-Petter - EconWPA - 2002
production. The ``organization'' of society is determined endogenously, and depends on agricultural technology and population … agents own their labor. In this process, the role of population growth switches from being a force driving the transition … the 19th century US which had sparser population had a larger percentage slaves in the population. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125014
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The Roads To and From Serfdom
Lagerlof, Nils-Petter - EconWPA - 2002
production. The "organization" of society is determined endogenously, and depends on agricultural technology and population … agents own their labor. In this process, the role of population growth switches from being a force driving the transition … the 19th century US which had sparser population had a larger percentage slaves in the population. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125652
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Power Law Signature in Indonesian Population
Mulianta, Ivan; Situngkir, Hokky; Surya, Yohanes - EconWPA - 2004
The paper analyzes the spreading of population in Indonesia. The spreading of population in Indonesia is clustered in … population does not have fat tail properties, while in the other hand; there exists power-law signature in kotamadya. We analyzed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125726
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Maintaining Momentum to 2015? An impact evaluation of interventions to improve maternal and child health and nutrition in Bangladesh
White, Howard; Masset, Edoardo; Blondal, Nina; … - EconWPA - 2005
Bangladesh has experienced rapid fertility decline and reductions in under-five mortality over the last three decades. This impact study unravels the various factors behind these changes. Economic growth has been important, but so have major public sector interventions, notably reproductive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407646
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40 million Aussies? The Immigration Debate Revisited
Corden, Max - EconWPA - 2004
If Australia's population were to reach 40 million, it could only result from either a drastic reversal of the decline …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408359
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Sex, Equality, and Growth (in that order)
Lagerlof, Nils-Petter - EconWPA - 2002
We set up a unified growth model capturing the transition of a primitive and egalitarian hunter-gatherer society, into an advanced and despotic early civilization, and finally into a more egalitarian industrial society. Agents are either landowners or landless; both earn income from human...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556717