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Evolution and the Growth Process:Natural Selection of Entrepreneurial Traits
Galor, Oded; Michalopoulos, Stelios - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2012
This research suggests that a Darwinian evolution of entrepreneurial spirit played asignificant role in the process of … economic development and the dynamics of inequality withinand across societies. The study argues that entrepreneurial spirit … evolved non-monotonicallyin the course of human history. In early stages of development, risk-tolerant, growthpromoting traits …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009486959
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Be Fruitful and Multiply? Moderate Fecundity and Long-Run Reproductive Success
Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
a larger predisposition towards child quality, contributing to the onset of the demographic transition and the evolution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110672
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Be Fruitful and Multiply? Moderate Fecundity and Long-Run Reproductive Success
Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc - Brown University, Department of Economics - 2013
a larger predisposition towards child quality, contributing to the onset of the demographic transition and the evolution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011196604
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Be Fruitful and Multiply? Moderate Fecundity and Long-Run Reproductive Success
Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc - 2014
a larger predisposition towards child quality, contributing to the onset of the demographic transition and the evolution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352345
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Human genealogy reveals a selective advantage to moderate fecundity
Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc P. B. - 2019
contributed to the onset of the demographic transition and thus to the evolution of societies to an era of sustained economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012058645
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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/10010409383
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The Biocultural Origins of Human Capital Formation
Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc P. B. - 2014
and the evolution of societies from an epoch of stagnation to sustained economic growth. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010409391
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Be fruitful and multiply? Moderate fecundity and long-run reproductive success
Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc - 2013
a larger predisposition towards child quality, contributing to the onset of the demographic transition and the evolution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010420278
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The Agricultural Origins of Time Preference
Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer - 2015
This research explores the origins of the distribution of time preference across regions. It advances the hypothesis, and establishes empirically that geographical variations in the natural return to agricultural investment have had a persistent effect on the distribution of time preference...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010480902
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The neolithic revolution and contemporary variations in life expectancy
Galor, Oded; Moav, Omer - 2007
This research advances an evolutionary theory and provides empirical evidence that shed new light on the origins of contemporary differences in life expectancy across countries. The theory suggests that social, economic and environmental changes that were associated with the Neolithic Revolution...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010318875