Landowning, Status and Population Growth

Ulla Lehmijoki () and Tapio Palokangas
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Ulla Lehmijoki: University of Helsinki and HECER

A chapter in Dynamic Optimization in Environmental Economics, 2014, pp 315-328 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This paper considers the effects of the landowning and land reforms on economic and demographic growth by a family-optimization model with endogenous fertility and status-seeking. A land reform provides the peasants with strong incentives to limit their family size and to improve the productivity of land. Even though the income effect due to the land reform tends to raise fertility, a strong enough status-effect outweighs it, thus generating a decrease in population growth. The European demographic history provides supporting anecdotal evidence for this theoretical result.

Keywords: Fertility Decline; Demographic History; Agricultural Technology; Child Rear; Land Reform (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-54086-8_14

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