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Assistant Professor of Economics, The University of Manchester & Dep. Director, @ArthurLewisLab ๐Ÿ“š growth & development, economic history, political economy
Nov 29, 2021 โ€ข 17 tweets โ€ข 7 min read
Why did the demographic transition, essential condition for development, took hold in ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท more than 100 years earlier than in any other country?

My #JMP uses crowdsourced genealogies to comprehensively document the decline in fertility & identify its origins for the first time ๐Ÿงต Why does it matter? Without an escape from the Malthusian trap, no sustained growth is possible

๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ‘‡ The hockey stick graph! ๐Ÿ’๐Ÿ’