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Many Types of Human Capital and Many Roles in U.S. Growth: Evidence from County-Level Educational Attainment Data
Young, Andrew T.; Levy, Daniel; Higgins, Matthew J. - 2004
We utilize county-level data to explore the roles of different types of human capital accumulation in U.S. growth determination. The data includes over 3,000 cross-sectional observations and 39 demographic control variables. The large number of observations provides enough degrees of freedom to...
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Natural selection and the origin of economic growth
Galor, Oded; Moav, Omer - 2000
This research develops an evolutionary growth theory that captures the interplay between the evolution of mankind and … economic growth since the emergence of the human species. This uni…ed theory encompasses the observed evolution of population …, technology and income per capita in the long transition from an epoch of Malthusian stagnation to sustained economic growth. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010318963
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Darwinian evolution of entrepreneurial spirit and the process of development
Galor, Oded; Michalopoulos, Stelios - 2006
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010318965
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Evolution and the growth process: Natural selection of entrepreneurial traits
Galor, Oded - 2011
This research suggests that the 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 history....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284032
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The demographic transition and the emergence of sustained economic growth
Galor, Oded - 2004
The demographic transition that swept the world in the course of the last century has been identified as one of the prime forces in the transition from stagnation to growth. The unprecedented increase in population growth during the early stages of industrialization was ultimately reversed and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010318956
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2008 Lawrence R. Klein lecture - Comparative economic development: Insights from unified growth theory
Galor, Oded - 2009
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284035
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Synergizing ventures
Akcigit, Ufuk; Dinlersoz, Emin Murat; Greenwood, Jeremy; … - 2019
Venture capital (VC) and growth are examined both empirically and theoretically. Empirically, VC-backed startups have higher early growth rates and initial patent quality than non-VC-backed ones. VC backing increases a startup's likelihood of reaching the right tails of the firm size and...
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What do exogenous shocks tell us about growth theories?
Noy, Ilan; Nualsri, Aekkanush - 2007
do not examine the determinants of the level of per capita income as an indication that a certain theory has better …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285333
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Structural development accounting
Gancia, Gino; Müller, Andreas; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - 2011
: differences in factor endowments, barriers to technology adoption and the inappropriateness of frontier technologies to local …, costly adoption and spillovers from the world technology frontier. Despite its parsimonious parametrization, our empirical … technology adoption would increase the output per worker of the average non-OECD country relative to the US from 0.19 to 0 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010316866
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Economic Growth and Evolution : Parental Preferences for Quality and Quantity of Offspring
Collins, Jason - 2012
This paper presents a quantitative analysis of the model developed in Galor and Moav, Natural Selection and the Origin of Economic Growth (2002), in which agents vary genetically in their preference for quality and quantity of children. The simulation produces a pattern of income and population...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013114693