Browsing Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change Reports by Author "Lanz, B."
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Global economic growth and agricultural land conversion under uncertain productivity improvements in agriculture
(MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2017-06)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 model of growth, in which a manufacturing sector ... -
Global population growth, technology, and Malthusian constraints: A quantitative growth theoretic perspective
(MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2015-10)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, technological progress and the demand for food. The ...
