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The Physiological Foundations of the Wealth of Nations

Dalgaard, Carl-Johan; Strulik, Holger - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Leibniz … - 2011

In the present paper we advance a theory of pre-industrial growth where body size and population size are endogenously determined. Despite the fact that parents invest in both child quantity and productivity enhancing child quality, a take-off does not occur due to a key "physiological check":...

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A Bioeconomic Foundation of the Malthusian Equilibrium: Body Size and Population Size in the Long-Run

Dalgaard, Carl-Johan; Strulik, Holger - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Leibniz … - 2007

This paper develops a bioeconomic Malthusian growth model. By integrating recent research on allometric scaling, energy consumption and ontogenetic growth, we provide a model where subsistence consumption is endogenously linked to body size and fertility. The theory admits a unique Malthusian...

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Geography, Health, and the Pace of Demo-Economic Development

Strulik, Holger - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Leibniz … - 2007

This paper investigates the impact of subsistence consumption and extrinsic and intrinsic causes of child mortality on fertility and child expenditure. It offers a theory for why mankind multiplies at higher rates at geographically unfavorable, tropical locations. Placed into a macroeconomic...

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A Bioeconomic Foundation for the Nutrition-based Efficiency Wage Model

Dalgaard, Carl-Johan; Strulik, Holger - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Leibniz … - 2008

Drawing on recent research on allometric scaling and energy consumption, the present paper develops a nutrition … original nutrition-based efficiency wage model. By extending the model with respect to heterogeneity in worker body size and a … physiologically founded impact of body size on productivity, we demonstrate that the nutrition-based efficiency wage model is …

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Physiology and Development: Why the West is Taller than the Rest

Dalgaard, Carl-Johan; Strulik, Holger - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Leibniz … - 2012

intensi cation of nutrition per child. Early transition countries are therefore expected to be more developed today …

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