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With this data set we estimate a polynomial version of a standard OLS regression and a non-linear kernel regression and robustly confirm a non-linear relationship between initial density and population growth: for quasi-departments with relatively low density (mostly from the initial periods) the relationship between population growth and initial density is negative (convergence in densities), for quasi-departments with intermediate density the relationship is positive (divergence) and for quasi-departments with very high density the relationship is negative again. 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