This research examines theoretically and empirically the origins of agriculture. The theory highlights the role of … a faster pace. Consequently, as long as climatic shocks preserved the possibility for agriculture, differences in the …, climatic volatility has a non-monotonic effect on the timing of the transition to agriculture. Farming was undertaken earlier …

effects of cooperation on the intensive margin of agriculture, low land productivity countries lagged behind during the … important in the process of industrialization, the transition from agriculture to industry among unfavorable land endowment …

The shift from hunting and gathering to agriculture, some 10,000 years ago, triggered the first demographic explosion … that reason, most anthropologists regard the adoption of agriculture as an economical puzzle. I show, using a neoclassical … economic model, that there is nothing puzzling about the adoption of agriculture. Agriculture brings four technological changes …

the Cape Verdean economy, namely agriculture, industry and services, from 1980 to 2010. The main results showed that the … added value of industry sector and negative effect in agriculture sector, unlike industry that is correlated positively with …

early nineteenth centuries – such as real wages, labor productivity in agriculture, and urbanization – also fails to confirm …