Shane L Gladson, Tracy L Stepien
An Agent-Based Model of Biting Midge Dynamics to Understand Bluetongue Outbreaks
Bulletin of mathematical biology
paper investigate impact technological change inequality presence landed elite using standard unified growth model measure inequality ratio land rent wages show onset fertility transition technological progress increased inequality directly landbiased technological change indirectly increasing population growth fertility transition child quantityquality tradeoff eventually disabled malthusian mechanism technological progress triggered education benefited workers elasticity substitution land labor sufficiently high rentwage ratio declines inequality humpshaped long run use publication new farming book titles measure technological progress agriculture provide evidence technologydriven inequality britain 1525 1895 confirm results panel european countries period 12651850 using agricultural productivity measure technology finally using patents period 18001980 find technologydriven inequality reversal around onset fertility transition