Be Fruitful and Multiply? Moderate Fecundity and Long-Run Reproductive Success
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- Oded Galor & Marc Klemp, 2013. "Be Fruitful and Multiply? Moderate Fecundity and Long-Run Reproductive Success," Working Papers 2013-10, Brown University, Department of Economics.
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Keywords
demography; evolution; natural selection; fecundity; quantity-quality trade-off; long-run reproductive success;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J10 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - General
- O10 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - General
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EVO-2014-03-22 (Evolutionary Economics)
- NEP-GRO-2014-03-22 (Economic Growth)
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