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Household behavior and the marriage market

Del Boca, Daniela; Flinn, Christopher J. - In: Journal of Economic Theory 150 (2014) C, pp. 515-550

: efficiently or inefficiently. Under strong, but standard, assumptions regarding marriage market equilibria, marital sorting … efficient or not. We develop a new likelihood-based metric to compare marriage market fits under the two alternative behavioral …

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Evolution and the growth process: Natural selection of entrepreneurial traits

Galor, Oded; Michalopoulos, Stelios - In: Journal of Economic Theory 147 (2012) 2, pp. 759-780

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...

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