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What broke the Malthusian trap was that productivity growth raised the price of bringing a child to adulthood.

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  1. Dietrich Vollrath

    Growth economist at the University of Houston and author of Fully Grown

    The key change is that productivity growth, starting around 1870, reached down and profoundly raised the price of bringing a child to adulthood.

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