income per capita stagnation in the pre-Industrial Revolution era. The theory suggests that improvements in technology during … this period generated only temporary gains in income per capita, eventually leading to a larger but not richer population …. Using exogenous cross-country variations in land productivity and the timing of the Neolithic Revolution, the analysis …

of diversity on productivity. While the intermediate level of genetic diversity prevalent among Asian and European …

productivity would have supported larger populations, given the level of socioeconomic development. Moreover, given land … productivity, societies in more advanced stages of development, as reflected by their cumulative experience with the agricultural …-country variations in the natural productivity of land and in the timing of the Neolithic Revolution, the analysis demonstrates that, in …

productivity. The finding lends further credence to the hypothesis that a significant portion of the variation in the standard of …

of today's income levels. We demonstrate that our results are not driven by persistence in geography or institutions. The …

Are the Neolithic revolution’s effects still impacting incomes across the world today? I find strong support for this … technological diffusion is accounted for. A correction for world migrations since 1500 significantly improves the fit. Transition … year also helps to explain income in 1500 itself, and an alternative measure of pre-modern development, state history, has …