Revolution and the prehistoric "out of Africa" migration of anatomically modern humans in generating worldwide variations in the …A vibrant literature has emerged in recent years to explore the influences of human evolution and the genetic … composition of populations on the comparative economic performance of societies, highlighting the roles played by the Neolithic …

This research suggests that a Darwinian evolution of entrepreneurial spirit played a significant role in the process of … economic development and the evolution of inequality within and across societies. The study argues that entrepreneurial spirit … evolved nonmonotonically in the course of human history. In early stages of development, the rise in income generated an …

ethnic group. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that the evolution of loss aversion in the course of …This research explores the origins of loss aversion and the variation in its prevalence across regions, nations and … human history can be traced to the adaptation of individuals to the asymmetric effects of climatic shocks on reproductive …

This research explores the economic causes and consequences of language structures. It advances the hypothesis and … agricultural investment, larger gender gap in agricultural productivity, and more hierarchical society, are at the root of existing … cross-language variations in the presence of the future tense, grammatical gender, and politeness distinctions. Moreover …

hierarchical orientation to the existence of politeness distinctions. The study advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically …This research explores the geographical origins of the coevolution of cultural and linguistic traits in the course of … human history, relating the geographical roots of long-term orientation to the structure of the future tense, the …

The importance of the prehistoric migration of anatomically modern humans from Africa for comparative economic … development has been the focus of a vibrant research agenda in the past decade. This influential literature has attracted the … other disciplines, and establishes that they are based on fundamental misunderstandings of the statistical methodology, the …

The exploration of the impact of the prehistoric migration of anatomically modern humans from Africa on comparative … economic development has been the focus of a vibrant research agenda in the past decade. This influential literature has … attracted the attention of scholars from other disciplines, and in light of existing methodo-logical gaps across fields, it has …

While the direct impact of geographic endowments on prosperity is present in all countries, in former colonies … control group, I develop an empirical strategy that disentangles the partial effects of institutions and of endowments on … income. I find that institutions are the main determinant of development, but that endowments have a sizeable direct impact …

This research establishes that migratory distance from the cradle of anatomically modern humans in East Africa and its … productivity. The finding lends further credence to the hypothesis that a significant portion of the variation in the standard of … effect on the distribution of genetic diversity across countries has a hump-shaped effect on nighttime light intensity per …

This paper explores the implications of Unified Growth Theory for the origins of existing differences in income per … capita across countries. The theory sheds light on three fundamental layers of comparative development. It identifies the … factors that have governed the pace of the transition from stagnation to growth and have thus contributed to contemporary …