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Demographic Transition and Industrial Revolution: A Coincidence?

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Oksana Leukhina () (Economics UNC - Chapel Hill)
Michael Bar

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All industrialized countries experienced a transition from high birth rates and stagnant standards of living to low birth rates and sustained growth in per capita income. What contributed to this transformation? Were output and population dynamics driven by common or separate forces? We develop a general equilibrium model with endogenous fertility in order to quantitatively investigate the English case. We find that mortality decline significantly influences birth rates. Increased productivity has a negligible effect on birth rates but accounts for nearly all of the increase in per capita output, industrialization, urbanization, and the decline of land share in total income

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Paper provided by Society for Economic Dynamics in its series 2006 Meeting Papers with number 383.

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Keywords: demographic transition; industrial revolution; mortality; technological progress;

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J10 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - General
O1 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development
O4 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity
E0 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - General

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