1989 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
On the Malthusian Hypothesis and the Dynamics of Population and Income in an Equilibrium Growth Model With Endogenous Fertility
verfasst von : Zvi Eckstein, Steve Stern, Kenneth I. Wolpin
Erschienen in: Economic Theory of Optimal Population
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Enthalten in: Professional Book Archive
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In this paper we analyze two positive issues regarding population and economic growth. The first issue concerns the pessimistic conjecture of Malthus that the existence of a fixed amount of land leads to the eventual decline in per-capita consumption and capital.1) The second issue concerns the observed positive association between population growth and income growth in developed countries (Kuznetz (1966)). To analyze these issues we use a version of the overlapping generations growth framework in which fertility is subject to individual choice.2)