Boucekkine, Raouf; Croix, David de la; Peeters, Dominique - In: Journal of the European Economic Association 5 (2007) 1, pp. 183-226
The transition from economic stagnation to sustained growth is often modeled thanks to "population-induced" productivity improvements, which are assumed rather than derived from primary assumptions. In this paper the effect of population on productivity is derived from optimal behavior. More...