Abstract
The aim of this paper is to explain English population and technological changes from 1550 to 1839. The model developed in this paper endogenizes technological change and urbanization and incorporates both the rural and the urban sectors of the economy. Regression results contrast with the findings of neo-Malthusian approaches. Boserupian causality (demographic change determines technological change) is found to be dominant. Exogenous mortality changes drive the growth of population either directly or via the fertility rate. The growth of population, in turn, drives technological changes that support further demographic changes as a feedback. The implications of the Boserupian causality are found to be different in the two sectors.
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