Optimal food allocation in a slave economy

Journal of Population Economics

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 21-36

  Rees, R ^a   Komlos, John ^a   Long, Ngo V ^b   Woitek, Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dynamic optimization; Food allocation; Height; Slaves: productive capacity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038542151     PISSN: 09331433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001480100109     Document Type: Article

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