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Alternative composite Lisbon development strategy indices
Heshmati, Almas (contributor); Oh, Jong-Eun (contributor) - 2005
This study addresses the measurement of two composite Lisbon strategy indices that quantifies the level and patterns of …"This study addresses the measurement of two composite Lisbon strategy indices that quantifies the level and patterns …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003085751
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Measuring youth empowerment: an illustration using the example of Tunisia
Goedhuys, Micheline; Grimm, Michael; Meysonnat, Aline; … - 2021
important for youth and how they can be operationalized with indicators for measurement. We propose four domains of youth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012648282
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The "Out of Africa" hypothesis, human genetic diversity, and comparative economic development
Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded - 2012
distance from the cradle of humankind to various settlements across the globe affected genetic diversity and has had a direct … (i.e., genetic diversity and genetic distance among and between its ancestral populations) has a similar non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009530753
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Does it matter where you came from? : ancestry composition and economic performance of US counties, 1850 - 2010
Fulford, Scott L.; Petkov, Ivan; Schiantarelli, Fabio - 2015
The United States provides a unique laboratory for understanding how the cultural, institutional, and human capital endowments of immigrant groups shape economic outcomes. In this paper, we use census micro-sample information to reconstruct the country-of-ancestry distribution for US counties...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010528617
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Genetic diversity and the origins of cultural fragmentation
Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded - 2013
Despite the importance attributed to the effects of diversity on the stability and prosperity of nations, the origins of the uneven distribution of ethnic and cultural fragmentation across countries have been underexplored. Building on the role of deeply-rooted biogeographical forces in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009697544
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The shadow of the Neolithic Revolution on life expectancy : a double-edged sword
Franck, Raphaël; Galor, Oded; Moav, Omer; Özak, Ömer - 2022
This research explores the persistent effect of the Neolithic Revolution on the evolution of life expectancy in the course of human history. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that the onset of the Neolithic Revolution and the associated rise in infectious diseases triggered...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013170449
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Economic production and the spread of supernatural beliefs
Araújo, Daniel; Carrillo, Bladimir; Sampaio, Breno - 2021
Religion and beliefs in the supernatural are present in all societies. Yet, studies about the spread of small-scale supernatural belief systems remain quite limited. In this work, we test the anthropological hypothesis that historical dependence on pastoralism favored the adoption of customs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012793318
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Millet, rice, and isolation : origins and persistence of the world’s most enduring mega-state
Kung, James Kai-sing; Özak, Ömer; Putterman, Louis G.; … - 2022
China as an example. We suggest that the relative timing of the emergence of agricultural societies, and their distance from … agriculture, and migratory distance across 1° × 1° grid cells in eastern Asia, we find that cells that adopted agriculture earlier …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013262216
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Expanding the measurement of culture with a sample of two billion humans
Obradovich, Nick; Özak, Ömer; Ortuño-Ortín, Ignacio; … - 2020
by the currently available measurement instruments. Scholars of culture must regularly choose between scalable but sparse … can advance the study of human culture by providing quantitative, scalable, and high-resolution measurement of … calculated from this measurement instrument correspond to traditional survey-based and objective measures of cross …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012294773
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011581726