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Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc P. B. - 2015

This research explores the origins of the variation in the prevalence and nature of political institutions across globe. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that variation in the inherent diversity across human societies, as determined in the course of the exodus of Homo...

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Human genealogy reveals a selective advantage to moderate fecundity

Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc P. B. - 2019

This research presents the first evidence that moderate fecundity had maximized long-run reproductive success in the human population. Using a reconstructed genealogy for nearly half a million individuals in Quebec during the 1608-1800 period, we find that while a high fecundity was associated...

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Post-1500 population flows and the long run determinants of economic growth and inequality

Putterman, Louis G. (contributor); … - 2008

state history and the timing of transition to agriculture have much better predictive power for current GDP when one looks … at the ancestors of the people who currently live in a country than when one considers the history on that country …’s ancestors. An even better predictor of current inequality in a country is the variance of early development history of the …

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Inequality and economic development : an overview

Galor, Oded - 2009

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Measuring economic growth from outer space

Henderson, J. Vernon; Storeygard, Adam; Weil, David N. - 2009

GDP growth is often measured poorly for countries and rarely measured at all for cities. We propose a readily available proxy: satellite data on lights at night. Our statistical framework uses light growth to supplement existing income growth measures. The framework is applied to countries with...

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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 factors that have governed the pace of the transition from...

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Cultural assimilation, cultural diffusion and the origin of the wealth of nations

Ashraf, Quamrul (contributor); Galor, Oded (contributor) - 2007

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Persistence of fortune : accounting for population movements, there was no post-columbian reversal

Chanda, Areendam; Cook, C. Justin; Putterman, Louis G. - 2013

history, and the Comin et al. (2010) year 1500 technology index. They are also robust to changing end years, to inclusion of …

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Inclusive institutions and long-run misallocation

Galor, Oded; Munshiy, Kaivan; Wilson, Nicholas - 2013

This research advances the hypothesis that resource abundant economies characterized by a socially cohesive workforce and network externalities triggered the emergence of efficiency-enhancing inclusive institutions designed to restrict mobility and to enhance the attachment of community members...

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The agricultural origins of time preference

Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer - 2014

This research explores the origins of the distribution of time preference across regions. It advances the hypothesis, and establishes empirically, that geographical variations in natural land productivity and their impact on the return to agricultural investment have had a persistent effect on...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010401739