Efficiency with endogenous population growth

Econometrica

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1039-1071

  Golosov, Mikhail ^a   Jones, Larry E ^b,c   Tertilt, Michèle ^d  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF MINNEAPOLIS   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Altruism; Dynasty; Fertility; First welfare theorem; Pareto optimality

Indexed keywords

EID: 34250687969     PISSN: 00129682     EISSN: 14680262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0262.2007.00781.x     Document Type: Article

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