Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/37107 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
Diskussionsbeitrag No. 420
Publisher: 
Leibniz Universität Hannover, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Hannover
Abstract: 
This study constructs a simple, two-sector Malthusian model with agriculture and industry, and use it to identify the determinants of subsistence income. We make standard assumptions about preferences and production technology, but by contrast to existing studies we assume that children and other consumption goods are gross substitutes. Consistent with the traditional Malthusian model, we find that productivity growth in agriculture has no effect on subsistence income. More importantly, we also find that subsistence income increases, not just with the death rate as has recently been demonstrated in the literature, but also with productivity in manufacturing.
Subjects: 
Malthusian Model
Subsistence Income.
JEL: 
J13
N10
O11
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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