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Population, Technology, and Growth: From the Malthusian Regime to the Demographic Transition and Beyond

Galor, Oded; Weil, David - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1998

This paper develops a unified model of growth, population, and technological progress that is consistent with long-term historical evidence. The economy endogenously evolves through three phases. In the Malthusian regime, population growth is positively related to the level of income per capita....

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The Gender Gap, Fertility, and Growth

Galor, Oded; Weil, David - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1993

This paper examines a novel mechanism linking fertility and growth. Household fertility is determined by relative wages … of women and men. Increasing women's wages reduces fertility by raising the cost of children relatively more than … household income. Lower fertility raises the level of capital per worker which in turn, since capital is more complementary to …

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Evolution and the Growth Process: Natural Selection of Entrepreneurial Traits

Galor, Oded; Michalopoulos, Stelios - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

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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