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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jul 28.
Published in final edited form as: Am Econ Rev. 2010 May;100(2):378–382.

Table 1.

Percentage Increase in Income Per Capita if Population Were 50 Percent Lower

Current natural resource share in income (ϕx) Elasticity of substitution (σ)
0.5 1 2 3 5
0.1 5.3 7.2 8.5 8.9 9.3
0.2 11.1 14.9 17.3 18.1 18.9
0.3 17.6 23.1 26.4 27.6 28.5
0.4 25.0 32.0 35.9 37.2 38.3
0.5 33.3 41.4 45.7 47.1 48.3