into persistent differences in economic development. Specifically, it establishes that pre-modern economic specialization … pre-modern economic specialization are associated with greater skill-biased occupational heterogeneity, economic …

that higher levels of intra-ethnic diversity were conducive to economic specialization in the pre-modern era. The findings …

to economic specialization in the pre-modern era. The findings are robust to a host of geographical, institutional …

to economic specialization in the pre-modern era. The findings are robust to a host of geographical, institutional …

Productivity in agriculture or services has long been understood as playing an important role in the growth of … manufacturing. In this paper we present a general equilibrium model in which manufacturing growth is stimulated by non … options for stimulating manufacturing growth: (1) a country imports more non-manufacturing goods from a foreign country with …

This research explores the emergence and prevalence of economic specialization and trade in pre-modern societies. It … specialization and trade. Based on a novel ethnic level dataset combining geocoded ethnographic, linguistic and genetic data, this … modern humans to causally establish that higher levels of population diversity were conducive to economic specialization and …

We propose a quantitative framework for the analysis of industrialization in which specialization in manufacturing or … agriculture is driven by comparative advantage and non-homothetic preferences. Countries are integrated through trade but trade is … better fit to cross-sectional data on manufacturing shares than frameworks which ignore the role of trade costs or non …

international trade. Meanwhile, specialization across stages of production, or "vertical specialization," has been largely ignored … from trade beyond those currently accounted for in standard models. I quantify the gains from vertical specialization … according to the model. Despite the importance of vertical specialization in the data, I find that the average gains from trade …

This paper contributes to trade diversification literature by comparing changes in relative (i.e. assessed in … highly disaggregated trade statistics (4963 product lines) for 163 countries (1988-2010) and find that, despite differences …) of both import and export structures accompanies economic growth, while re-specialisation is plausible only in case of …