Population growth in polluting industrialization

Karine Constant, Carine Nourry and Thomas Seegmuller ()
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Thomas Seegmuller: GREQAM - Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - AMU - Aix Marseille Université - ECM - École Centrale de Marseille - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: Recently, many contributions have focused on the relationship between capital level, growth and population dynamics, introducing fertility choice in macro-dynamic models. In this paper, we go one step further highlighting also the link with pollution. We develop a simple overlapping generations model with paternalistic altruism according to wealth and environmental concerns. One can therefore explain a simultaneous increase in capital intensity, population growth and pollution, namely a polluting industrialization. We show in addition that a permanent productivity shock, possibly associated to technological innovations, promotes such a polluting development process, escaping a trap where the economy is relegated to low levels of capital intensity, population growth and pollution.

Keywords: altruism; development; Growth; Pollution; Population dynamics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-01
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Published in Resource and Energy Economics, 2014, 36 (1), pp.229-247. ⟨10.1016/j.reseneeco.2013.05.004⟩

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DOI: 10.1016/j.reseneeco.2013.05.004

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