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Natural Land Productivity, Cooperation and Comparative Development
Litina, Anastasia - Centre de Recherche en Économie Appliquée (CREA), … - 2014
This research advances the hypothesis that natural land productivity in the past, and its effect on the desirable level of cooperation in the agricultural sector, had a persistent effect on the evolution of social capital, the process of industrialization and comparative economic development...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011095276
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Natural Land Productivity, Cooperation and Comparative Development
Litina, Anastasia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This research advances the hypothesis that natural land productivity in the past, and its effect on the desirable level of cooperation in the agricultural sector, had a persistent effect on the evolution of social capital, the process of industrialization and comparative economic development...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111722
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Global population growth, technology and Malthusian constraints: A quantitative growth theoretic perspective
Lanz, Bruno; Dietz, Simon; Swanson, Timothy M. - 2016
We structurally estimate a two-sector Schumpeterian growth model with endogenous population and finite land reserves to … closely replicates trajectories for world population, GDP, sectoral productivity growth and crop land area from 1960 to 2010 …, significant population growth. By 2100 global population reaches 12.4 billion and agricultural production doubles, but the land …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011621554
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Global population growth, technology and Malthusian constraints: A quantitative growth theoretic perspective
Lanz, Bruno; Dietz, Simon; Swanson, Tim - 2016
economic growth? We structurally estimate a two-sector Schumpeterian growth model with endogenous population and finite land … model closely replicates trajectories for world population, GDP, sectoral productivity growth and crop land area from 1960 … fertility costs, significant population growth. By 2100 global population reaches 12.4 billion and agricultural production …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011957725
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Cultural assimilation, cultural diffusion and the origin of the wealth of nations
Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded - 2007
industrialization and, thereby, their take-off to a state of sustained economic growth. The theory contributes to the understanding of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010318954
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Cultural diversity, geographical isolation, and the origin of the wealth of nations
Ashrafy, Quamrul; Galorz, Oded - 2011
economic growth. The theory thus contributes to the understanding of the advent of divergence and overtaking in the process of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284033
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Cultural diversity, geographical isolation, and the origin of the wealth of nations
Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded - 2012
economic growth. The theory thus contributes to the understanding of the advent of divergence and overtaking in the process of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009530812
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Cultural diversity, geographical isolation, and the origin of the wealth of nations
Ashrafy, Quamrul; Galorz, Oded - 2011
economic growth. The theory thus contributes to the understanding of the advent of divergence and overtaking in the process of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009384831
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Global population growth, technology and Malthusian constraints : a quantitative growth theoretic perspective
Lanz, Bruno; Dietz, Simon; Swanson, Timothy M. - 2016
We structurally estimate a two-sector Schumpeterian growth model with endogenous population and finite land reserves to … closely replicates trajectories for world population, GDP, sectoral productivity growth and crop land area from 1960 to 2010 …, significant population growth. By 2100 global population reaches 12.4 billion and agricultural production doubles, but the land …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011478553
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The Agricultural Productivity Gap
Gollin, Douglas - 2013
According to national accounts data, value added per worker is much higher in the non-agricultural sector than in agriculture in the typical country, and particularly so in developing countries. Taken at face value, this "agricultural productivity gap'' suggests that labor is greatly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013091770