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The Biogeographic Origins of Novelty-Seeking Traits
Gören, Erkan - 2014
distance from East Africa naturally selects for specific novelty-seeking traits, even controlling for a broad range of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010435700
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The relationship between novelty-seeking taits and comparative economic development
Gören, Erkan - 2015
This paper suggests a theoretical framework and provides empirical evidence for a hump-shaped relationship between the fraction of novelty-seeking traits in society and current levels of per capita income. The hypothesis is that novelty-seeking traits produce two countervailing effects on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011304489
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The "Out of Africa" hypothesis, human genetic diversity, and comparative economic development
Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded - 2012
empirically establishes the hypothesis that in the course of the exodus of Homo sapiens out of Africa, variation in migratory …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291046
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Is Poverty in the African DNA (Gene)?
Asongu, Simplice A.; Kodila-Tedika, Oasis - 2015
dropped substantially in all regions with the exception of Sub-Saharan Africa. We assess if poverty is in the African gene by … revisiting the findings of Ashraf and Galor (2013, AER) and reformulating the 'Out of Africa Hypothesis' into a 'Genetic … Diversity Hypothesis' for a 'Within Africa Analysis'. We motivate this reformulation with five shortcomings arising for the most …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390918
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Genetic diversity and economic development: Assessing the key findings in Ashraf and Galor (2013)
Caraher, Raymond; Ash, Michael - 2018
We replicate Ashraf and Galor (2013) and find that its conclusions concerning the association between human genetic diversity and economic development depend substantially on coding errors and sample selection. We correct the coding errors and add or update data on genetic diversity and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012059892
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The out of Africa hypothesis of comparative development reflected by nighttime light intensity
Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc - 2014
This research establishes that migratory distance from the cradle of anatomically modern humans in East Africa and its …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010420279
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The "Out of Africa" hypothesis, human genetic diversity, and comparative economic development
Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded - 2010
empirically establishes the hypothesis that, in the course of the exodus of Homo sapiens out of Africa, variation in migratory …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284053
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Human genetic diversity and comparative economic development
Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded - 2008
cross-country variation in genetic diversity by appealing to the 'out of Africa' hypothesis of human origins to empirically …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284081
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Climatic Roots of Loss Aversion
Galor, Oded; Savitskiy, Viacheslav - 2018
This research explores the origins of loss aversion and the variation in its prevalence across regions, nations and ethnic group. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that the evolution of loss aversion in the course of human history can be traced to the adaptation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931781
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Climatic Roots of Loss Aversion
Galor, Oded; Savitskiy, Viacheslav - 2018
This research explores the origins of loss aversion and the variation in its prevalence across regions, nations and ethnic group. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that the evolution of loss aversion in the course of human history can be traced to the adaptation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011815810