technological environment during the pre-industrial era had generated only temporary gains in income per capita, eventually leading … productivity and the level of technological advancement the analysis demonstrates that, in accordance with the theory …, technological superiority and higher land productivity had significant positive effects on population density but insignificant …

productivity would have supported larger populations, given the level of socioeconomic development. Moreover, given land … productivity, societies in more advanced stages of development, as re ected by their cumulative experience with the agricultural …-country variations in the natural productivity of land and in the timing of the Neolithic Revolution, the analysis demonstrates that, in …

income per capita stagnation in the pre-Industrial Revolution era. The theory suggests that improvements in technology during … this period generated only temporary gains in income per capita, eventually leading to a larger but not richer population …. Using exogenous cross-country variations in land productivity and the timing of the Neolithic Revolution, the analysis …

genetic diversity ; Comparative development ; Population density ; Neolithic Revolution ; Land productivity ; Malthusian …

of diversity on productivity. While the intermediate level of genetic diversity prevalent among Asian and European …" hypothesis ; Human genetic diversity ; Comparative development ; Income per capita ; Population density ; Neolithic Revolution … ; Land productivity …

and the detrimental effects of diversity on productivity. Moreover, the level of genetic diversity in each country today …-monotonic effect on the contemporary levels of income per capita. While the intermediate level of genetic diversity prevalent among the … Revolution ; land productivity ; Malthusian stagnation …

productivity. The finding lends further credence to the hypothesis that a significant portion of the variation in the standard of …

beneficial and the detrimental effects of diversity on productivity. While intermediate levels of genetic diversity prevalent …