vibrant literature, highlighting the roles played by the Neolithic Revolution and the prehistoric "out of Africa" migration of … literature and examines the contribution of a recent hypothesis regarding the evolutionary origins of comparative economic …The importance of evolutionary forces for comparative economic performance across societies has been the focus of a …

ethnic group. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that the evolution of loss aversion in the course of …This research explores the origins of loss aversion and the variation in its prevalence across regions, nations and … human history can be traced to the adaptation of individuals to the asymmetric effects of climatic shocks on reproductive …

This research explores the economic causes and consequences of language structures. It advances the hypothesis and … agricultural investment, larger gender gap in agricultural productivity, and more hierarchical society, are at the root of existing … cross-language variations in the presence of the future tense, grammatical gender, and politeness distinctions. Moreover …

hierarchical orientation to the existence of politeness distinctions. The study advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically …This research explores the geographical origins of the coevolution of cultural and linguistic traits in the course of … human history, relating the geographical roots of long-term orientation to the structure of the future tense, the …

hypothesis and establishes empirically that intra-ethnic diversity had a positive effect on the division of labor across …This research explores the historical roots of the division of labor in pre-modern societies. It advances the … ethnicities in the pre-modern era. Exploiting a variety of identification strategies and a novel ethnic level dataset combining …

seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the study traces the number of descendants of early inhabitants in the subsequent four … generations. Using the time interval between the date of marriage and the first live birth as a measure of reproductive capacity …, the research establishes that while a higher fecundity is associated with a larger number of children, an intermediate …

hypothesis that during the Malthusian epoch, the forces of natural selection favored individuals with lower fecundity and thus …This research explores the biocultural origins of human capital formation. It presents the first evidence that moderate … the eighteenth centuries, the study explores the effect of fecundity on the number of descendants of early inhabitants in …

This paper studies how an institution such as markets affects the evolution of mankind. My key point is that the forces … probability, so that in the long run natural selection makes sure that population is entirely made of individuals with the best … of natural selection are made weaker because trade allows people to specialize in those activities where they are strong …

Stated survey measures of risk preferences are increasingly being used in the literature, and they have been compared … educational choice, which involves the comparison of risky future income paths and therefore depends on risk and time preferences …. In contrast to experimental settings, educational choice is one of the most important economic decisions taken by …

This methodological survey reviews recent developments in the design of experiments to elicit individuals' time … preferences, with a focus on the measurement or control for potentially non-linear utility. While the objective of a time … preference experiment is usually to estimate parameters of a discount function, assumptions concerning the nature of utility may …