The American Frontier : A Hundred Years of Western Settlement

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The American Frontier : A Hundred Years of Western Settlement

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Guillaume Vandenbroucke () (University of Southern California)

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What drove western population growth in the U.S. during the 19th century? The facts are: (i) Natural increase was higher in the West than in the East; and (ii) in the early stages of the settlement process, net migration could account for up to 80% of population growth in some regions. A general equilibrium model is proposed, with three ingredients: endogenous fertility, investment in land, and migration. The relative abundance of land in the West promotes higher fertility. The model is simulated. It accounts well for the time-series decomposition of population growth between migration and fertility.

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Paper provided by Economie d'Avant Garde in its series Economie d'Avant Garde Research Reports with number 7.

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- Guillaume Vandenbroucke, 2004. "The American Frontier: A Hundred Years of Western Settlement," 2004 Meeting Papers 163, Society for Economic Dynamics. [Downloadable!]

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J1 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics
O1 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development

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