sector. This discrepancy in technological proximity between sectors influences the differential productivity growth rates in …

The theory of endogenous technical change has deeply contributed to our understanding of the fundamental sources of … wage inequality, long-run divergence between the innovating North and the imitating South due to inappropriate technology …

demand: the complementarity between technology and skilled and unskilled labor. Our results identify parameters that are …

In medieval times, most people identified with religious values and aggregate income and productivity grew at glacier … speed. In the 20th century, religion played a much lesser role in daily life and income and productivity grew at high and … unprecedented rates. The present paper develops a simple economic theory of identity choice that explains both stylized facts as …

subsequent recovery of left-handedness observed over the last few centuries in the Western world, we propose a theory in which …