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 …

1950s. Finally, we turn to the determinants of a broad array of development indicators for the year 1960 and for the 1960 …

We study the evolution of racial educational inequality across US states from 1940 to 2000. We show that throughout …

, which should benefit development. The political-economy literature on the evolution of women's rights finds that …Women's rights and economic development are highly correlated. Today, the discrepancy between the legal rights of women … women had few rights before economic development took off. Is development the cause of expanding women's rights, or …

As China exhibited unprecedented rapid economic growth ever since its reform and openness, the development and sources … of labor productivity has gradually come to the forefront. This paper studies the development and the source of labor …

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 …

development stages from industrialized to newly industrialized and emerging market economies. The environmental consequences …