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Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2002

This paper studies how an institution such as markets affects the evolution of mankind. My key point is that the forces …

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Hedonic capital

Graham, Liam; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2006

This paper proposes a new way to think about happiness. It distinguishes between stocks and flows. Central to the analysis is a concept we call 'hedonic capital'. The paper sets out a model of the dynamics of wellbeing in which bad life-shocks are smoothed by the drawing down of hedonic capital....

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Social Reciprocity

Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Matthews, Peter Hans - 2004

We define social reciprocity as the act of demonstrating one's disapproval, at some personal cost, for the violation of widely-held norms (e.g., don't free ride). Social reciprocity differs from standard notions of reciprocity because social reciprocators intervene whenever a norm is violated...

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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 …

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Employment Industry and Occupational Continuity in Germany: From the Nazi Regime to the Post-War Economic Miracle

Puhani, Patrick A. - 2014

Using retrospective survey data that covers 1939, 1950, 1960, and 1971, I compare individual-level changes in employment industry and occupational status in Germany from the beginning of World War II to the post-war reconstruction era dubbed the Economic Miracle (Wirtschaftswunder). This...

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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...

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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. …

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How Darwinian Should an Economy Be?

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2014

This paper studies aggregate dynamics in a cobweb model where learning takes place through a selection mechanism, by which more successful firms are replicated at a higher rate. The structure of the model allows to characterize analytically the aggregate dynamics, and to compute the effect on...

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Evolution of Individual Preferences and Persistence of Family Rules

Cigno, Alessandro; Gioffré, Alessandro; Luporini, Annalisa - 2019

preference evolution? We show that it is in a couple's common interest to obey a rule requiring them to give specified amounts of …

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Left-Handedness and Economic Development

Mariani, Fabio; Mercier, Marion; Pensieroso, Luca - 2021

This paper studies the interplay between left-handedness and economic development. To explain the decline and … economic development influences the prevalence of left-handedness through structural change and a genetic mechanism driven by … the link between handedness and economic performance varies across stages of development. Consistent with the implications …

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