The expansion of modern agriculture and global biodiversity decline: an integrated assessment

B Lanz, S Dietz, T Swanson - Ecological Economics, 2018 - Elsevier
The world is banking on a major increase in food production, if the dietary needs and food
preferences of an increasing, and increasingly rich, population are to be met. This requires …

The past and future of knowledge-based growth

H Strulik, K Prettner, A Prskawetz - Journal of Economic Growth, 2013 - Springer
This paper consolidates two previously disconnected literatures. It integrates R&D-based
innovations into a unified growth framework with micro-founded fertility and schooling …

Global economic growth and agricultural land conversion under uncertain productivity improvements in agriculture

B Lanz, S Dietz, T Swanson - American Journal of Agricultural …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
We study how stochasticity in the evolution of agricultural productivity interacts with
economic and population growth at the global level. We use a two‐sector Schumpeterian …

Do unconditional cash transfers increase fertility? Lessons from a large‐scale program

S Awaworyi Churchill, N Iqbal, S Nawaz… - Economic …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
We examine the impact of unconditional cash transfers (UCTs) on fertility. We develop a
theoretical model that demonstrates how UCTs affect fertility decisions, time allocations for …

Endogenous human capital and market structure in a monetary Schumpeterian model

Q He, X Wang - Economic Modelling, 2024 - Elsevier
This study incorporates endogenous human capital into a monetary Schumpeterian model
with endogenous market structure. We find that endogenous human capital leads to …

The environmental tax: effects on inequality and growth

L Spinesi - Environmental and Resource Economics, 2022 - Springer
Within an R&D-driven growth model, this paper studies how an environmental tax and its
cost both for firms and consumers affect individuals' incentives for human capital …

Longevity and technological change

A Gehringer, K Prettner - Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2019 - cambridge.org
We analyze the impact of increasing longevity on technological progress within an
overlapping generations research and development (R&D)-based growth framework and …

Endogenous education and the reversal in the relationship between fertility and economic growth

A Bucci, K Prettner - Journal of Population Economics, 2020 - Springer
To reconcile the predictions of research and development (R&D)-based growth theory
regarding the impact of population growth on productivity growth with the available empirical …

Demographic change, human capital accumulation and R&D‐based growth

K Hashimoto, K Tabata - Canadian Journal of Economics …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Employing an overlapping generations model of R&D‐based growth with endogenous
fertility and education decisions, we examine how demographic changes induced by an …

Global population growth, technology, and Malthusian constraints: A quantitative growth theoretic perspective

B Lanz, S Dietz, T Swanson - International Economic Review, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
We structurally estimate a two‐sector Schumpeterian growth model with endogenous
population and finite land reserves to study the long‐run evolution of global population …