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Malthus to modernity : wealth, status, and fertility in England, 1500 - 1879

Clark, Gregory; Cummins, Neil - In: Journal of population economics 28 (2015) 1, pp. 3-29

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Extension of Fisher's classical result on exponential dynamics of the reproductive value to a wide class of populations

Ediev, Dalkhat M. (contributor) - 2005

The classical result by R.A. Fisher concerning reproductive value dynamics is expanded to the case of varying vital rates with a constant cohort Lotka's r. Based on the demographic potential approach, generalization of the concept of reproductive value is introduced, which exhibits exponential...

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Malthusian population dynamics : theory and evidence

Ashraf, Quamrul (contributor); Galor, Oded (contributor) - 2008

This paper empirically tests the existence of Malthusian population dynamics in the pre-Industrial Revolution era. The theory suggests that, during the agricultural stage of development, resource surpluses beyond the maintenance of subsistence consumption were channeled primarily into population...

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Dynamics and Stagnation in the Malthusian Epoch

Ashraf, Quamrul H.; Galor, Oded - 2012

This paper examines the central hypothesis of the influential Malthusian theory, according to which improvements in the technological environment during the pre-industrial era had generated only temporary gains in income per capita, eventually leading to a larger, but not significantly richer,...

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Gray versus Malthus, the principles of population and production investigated : and the questions, does population regulate subsistence, or subsistence population ... and should go...

Gray, Simon - 1818

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Dynamics and Stagnation in the Malthusian Epoch

Ashraf, Quamrul - 2011

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Impatience to consume and population growth in a simple agrarian economy

Amundsen, Eirik Schrøder; Skonhoft, Anders - 2022

This paper studies the relationship between population size and the rate of time preference (RTP) in pre-capitalist subsistence agricultural communities. The RTP is reflected in the community´s propensity to invest in and maintain new arable land that may be considered as an inherent...

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Malthus to Modernity : England’s First Fertility Transition, 1760-1800

Clark, Gregory; Cummins, Neil - 2014

English fertility history is generally regarded as having been composed of two regimes: an era of unregulated marital … fertility, from at least 1540 to 1890, then the modern era, with regulated marital fertility, lower for higher social classes …. We show there were in fact three fertility regimes in England: a Malthusian regime which lasted from at least 1500 until …

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A Basic Model of Take-Off and Fertility Choices in the Economic Development Process

Bucciarelli, Edgardo; Giulioni, Gianfranco - 2011

endowed with full control over their fertility but, differently from other studies, the degree of agents' altruism which … mainly affects fertility choices are allowed to change with the standard of living. We relate agents' altruism to the …

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Population, Technology, and Growth : From Malthusian Stagnation to the Demographic Transition and Beyond

Galor, Oded; Weil, David N. - 2010

This paper develops a unified growth model that captures the historical evolution of population, technology, and output. It encompasses the endogenous transition between three regimes that have characterized economic development. The economy evolves from a Malthusian regime, where technological...

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