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Ice age climate, somatic capital, and the timing of the neolithic transition

Grall, Lothar - 2016

This paper proposes somatic capital as a hitherto neglected variable in the discussion of factors impacting the timing of the Neolithic transition. It develops an evolutionary growth theory that builds on the trade-off between the quantity and the quality of offspring. The theory suggests that...

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The Nordhaus racket : how to use capitalization to minimize the cost of climate change and win a nobel for "sustainable growth"

Bikler, Šimšōn; Nitzan, Jonathan - 2018

The LA Times called the bluff: William D. Nordhaus won the Nobel prize in economics for a climate model that minimized the cost of rising global temperatures and undermined the need for urgent action. Unfortunately, though, the article missed the nugget in the racket.

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A Hirsch measure for the quality of research supervision, and an illustration with trade economists

Ruane, Frances P. (contributor); … - 2008

There is a growing literature measuring research excellence in economics. The h-index is noteworthy in combining quantity and research quality in a single measure of researcher excellence, and its ability to be extended to measure the quantity and quality of the researchers in a department. We...

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Foreign language learning : an econometric analysis

Ginsburgh, Victor; Mélitz, Jacques; Toubal, Farid Toubal - 2014

The paper is devoted to an econometric analysis of learning foreign languages in all parts of the world. Our sample … learning while the world population of speakers of the native language generally discourages it. Trade with speakers of a … other three key variables (literacy rate, linguistic distance, and world population of native speakers) because its …

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