Ashraf, Quamrul; Michalopoulos, Stelios - Brown University, Department of Economics - 2013
This research examines variations in the di¤usion of agriculture across countries and archaeological sites. The theory … adoption of agriculture. Consistent with the proposed hypothesis, the empirical investigation demonstrates that, conditional on … biogeographic endowments, climatic volatility has a non-monotonic e¤ect on the timing of the adoption of agriculture. Farming di …