期刊名称：CORE Discussion Papers / Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (UCL), Louvain
出版年度：2007
卷号：1
出版社：Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (UCL), Louvain
摘要：We propose a model with some of the main demographic, economic and institutional factors
usually considered to matter in the transition to modern growth. We apply our theory to
England over the period 1530-1860. We use th model to measure the impact of mortality,
population density and technological progress on school foundations, literacy and growth
through a set of experiments. We find that one third of the rise in literacy over the period
1530-1860 can be directly related to the rise in population density, while one sixth is linked
to higher longevity and one half to exogenous total factor productivity growth. Moreover,
the timing of the effect of population density in the model is consistent with the available
evidence for England, where it is shown that schools were established at a high rate over the
period 1540-1620.
