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Evolution and the growth process : natural selection of entrepreneurial traits

Galor, Oded; Michalopulos, Stelios - 2012

evolutionary advantage, diminishing the growth potential of advanced economies and contributing to convergence in economic growth …

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Cultural diversity, geographical isolation, and the origin of the wealth of nations

Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded - 2012

This research argues that variations in the interplay between cultural assimilation and cultural diffusion have played a significant role in giving rise to differential patterns of economic development across the globe. Societies that were geographically less vulnerable to cultural diffusion...

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Geographical origins and economic consequences of language structures

Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer; Sarid, Assaf - 2016

This research explores the economic causes and consequences of language structures. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that variations in pre-industrial geographical characteristics that were conducive to higher return to agricultural investment, larger gender gap in...

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The macrogenoeconomics of comparative development

Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded - 2017

The importance of evolutionary forces for comparative economic performance across societies has been the focus of a vibrant literature, highlighting the roles played by the Neolithic Revolution and the prehistoric "out of Africa" migration of anatomically modern humans in generating worldwide...

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Diversity and conflict

Arbatli, Cemal Eren; Ashraf, Quamrul H.; Galor, Oded; … - 2018

This research advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that interpersonal population diversity has contributed significantly to the emergence, prevalence, recurrence, and severity of intrasocietal conflicts. Exploiting an exogenous source of variations in population diversity across...

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The effect of migration on income growth and convergence : meta-analytic evidence

Ozgen, Ceren; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - 2009

long-run real income convergence and derive 67 comparable effect sizes. The precision-weighted estimate of beta convergence … is more consistent with endogenous self-reinforcing growth than with neoclassical convergence. Introducing a net … migration variable in a growth regression increases the estimate of beta convergence slightly. Studies that use panel models or …

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Immigrants' "ability" and welfare as a function of cultural diversity : effect of cultural capital at individual and local level

Tubadji, Annie; Gheasi, Masood; Nijkamp, Peter - 2014

This paper presents an operationalization of a mixed Bourdieu–Mincer-type model that seeks to find evidence for individual and local cultural capital effects on human capital 'ability'. We aim to compare these effects for native workers and immigrants (as well as between immigrants themselves)...

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REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND DIVERSITY/VARIETY OF FIRMS: THE CASE OF ROMANIA

Lincaru, Cristina; Ghenta, Mihaela; Atanasiu, Draga; … - In: Regional Science Inquiry 2 (2010) 2, pp. 119-132

In this paper we try to find empirical evidence regarding the region diversity by firm characteristics, using spatial data from Tempo (INS Romania database) at NUTS 1, 2 and 3 region level for the period 1997-2008. Using instruments of statistical analysis of spatial data (Anselin, Varga) we try...

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THE ROLE OF EVALUATION IN SUPPORTING A HUMAN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: A COSMONOMIC PERSPECTIVE

Nijkamp, Peter - In: Regional Science Inquiry 3 (2011) 1, pp. 13-22

This paper offers a new perspective on the issue of urban sustainability. Starting from a positive perspective on city life, it makes a typology of critical roles of the city that are to be considered with a view to urban sustainability. Next, it is argued that a sine qua non for a structured...

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SUSTAINABLE BIODIVERSITY: EVALUATION LESSONS FROM PAST ECONOMIC RESEARCH

Nunes, Paulo A.L.D.; Nijkamp, Peter - In: Regional Science Inquiry 2 (2010) 2, pp. 13-46

Biodiversity has received much attention in environmental research and public policy in recent years. There is a world-wide interest in its relevance for the carrying capacity of rich but fragile ecosystems. Voices suggesting building up proper protection mechanisms for unique and scarce...

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