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Birth, death, and development : a simple unified growth theory
Strulik, Holger (contributor); Weisdorf, Jacob (contributor) - 2008
relationship between child mortality and net reproduction observed in industrialized countries over the course of their demographic … transitions. The model captures the intricate interplay between technological progress, mortality, fertility and economic growth … demographic variables. -- Economic growth ; mortality ; fertility ; structural Change ; industrial revolution. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003791320
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How child costs and survival shaped the industrial revolution and the demographic transition : a theoretical inquiry
Strulik, Holger; Weisdorf, Jacob - 2010
relationship between child mortality and net reproduction observed in industrialized countries over the course of their demographic … transitions. The model captures the intricate interplay between technological progress, mortality, fertility and economic growth … demographic observation that fertility rates response with a delay to lower child mortality. It also identifies a number of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003946193
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Political power, resistance to technological change and economic development : evidence from the 19th century Sweden
Tyrefors, Björn; Lindgren, Erik; Pettersson-Lidbom, Per - 2017 - This version: June 16, 2017
We analyze investment decisions when information is costly, with and without delegation to an agent. We use a rational-inattention model and compare it with a canonical signal-extraction model. We identify three "investment conditions". In "sour" conditions, no information is acquired and no...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011667675
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Cross sections are history
Easterlin, Richard A. - 2013
Although cross section relationships are often taken to indicate causation, and especially the important impact of economic growth on many social phenomena, they may, in fact, merely reflect historical experience, that is, similar leader-follower country patterns for variables that are causally...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009730828
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Degrees of development: how geographic latitude sets the pace of industrialization and demographic change
Strulik, Holger - 2008
geographic locations of high extrinsic mortality. This mechanism is then used to explain why both demographic transition and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264936
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Degrees of development : how geographic latitude sets the pace of industrialization and demographic change
Strulik, Holger (contributor) - 2008
geographic locations of high extrinsic mortality. This mechanism is then used to explain why both demographic transition and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003612619
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The simplest unified growth theory
Strulik, Holger (contributor); Weisdorf, Jacob (contributor) - 2007
This paper provides a uni?ed growth theory, i.e. a model that explains the very long-run economic and demographic development path of industrialized economies, stretching from the pre-industrial era to present-day and beyond. Making strict use of Malthus’ (1798) so-called preventive check...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003575465
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The Simplest Unified Growth Theory
Strulik, Holger - 2009
This paper provides a unified growth theory, i.e. a model that explains the very long-run economic and demographic development path of industrialized economies, stretching from the pre-industrial era to the present-day and beyond. Making strict use of Malthus' (1798) so-called preventive check...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012721181
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Social Interactions and Modern Economic Growth
Mejia, Javier - 2018
This paper offers a theoretical framework to understand the coevolution of social interactions and long-term economic growth. It begins by considering that most traditional societies did not have educational markets. Thus, access to the required knowledge for transiting to a modern economy had...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014111242
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Potential switchovers in comparative advantage : patterns of industrial convergence
Landesmann, Michael; Stehrer, Robert - 2000
Although there exists a vast literature on convergence and divergence of income levels across countries or regions at the aggregate level, there is only little work on convergence and/or diver- gence processes of productivity and wage levels at the more disaggregated industrial level. These are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009750855