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Be Fruitful and Multiply? Moderate Fecundity and Long-Run Reproductive Success
Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc - 2014
a larger predisposition towards child quality, contributing to the onset of the demographic transition and the evolution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352345
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The Agricultural Origins of Time Preference
Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer - 2014
This research explores the origins of the distribution of time preference across regions. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically, that geographical variations in natural land productivity and their impact on the return to agricultural investment have had a persistent effect on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010409383
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The Biocultural Origins of Human Capital Formation
Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc P. B. - 2014
and the evolution of societies from an epoch of stagnation to sustained economic growth. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010409391
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Evolution and the growth process: Natural selection of entrepreneurial traits
Galor, Oded; Michalopoulos, Stelios - 2012
This research suggests that a Darwinian evolution of entrepreneurial spirit played a significant role in the process of … economic development and the dynamics of inequality within and across societies. The study argues that entrepreneurial spirit … evolved non-monotonically in the course of human history. In early stages of development, risk-tolerant, growth promoting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282576
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Evolution and the Growth Process: Natural Selection of Entrepreneurial Traits
Galor, Oded; Michalopoulos, Stelios - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This research suggests that a Darwinian evolution of entrepreneurial spirit played a significant role in the process of … economic development and the dynamics of inequality within and across societies. The study argues that entrepreneurial spirit … evolved non-monotonically in the course of human history. In early stages of development, risk-tolerant, growth promoting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009646338
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Climatic Roots of Loss Aversion
Galor, Oded; Savitskiy, Viacheslav - 2018
ethnic group. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that the evolution of loss aversion in the course of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931781
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Inequality, human capital formation and the process of development
Galor, Oded - 2012
Conventional wisdom about the relationship between income distribution and economic development has been subjected to … the development process. In early stages of industrialization, as physical capital accumulation was a prime engine of … growth, inequality enhanced the process of development by channeling resources towards individuals whose marginal propensity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282627
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Genetic diversity and the origins of cultural fragmentation
Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded - 2013
role of deeply-rooted biogeographical forces in comparative development, this research empirically demonstrates that … revolutionize the understanding of the effects of deeply-rooted factors on economic development and the composition of human capital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291437
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Inequality, Human Capital Formation and the Process of Development
Galor, Oded - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Conventional wisdom about the relationship between income distribution and economic development has been subjected to … the development process. In early stages of industrialization, as physical capital accumulation was a prime engine of … growth, inequality enhanced the process of development by channeling resources towards individuals whose marginal propensity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009646300