This paper integrates a simple theory of identity choice into a framework of endogenous economic growth to explain how … experience this pleasure from consumption. These activities are conducive to economic growth. Higher income makes consumption … investigates the Protestant Reformation as an intermediate stage during the take-off to growth. Another extension introduces …

positively to natural disasters. Here, we propose a simple theory based on the neoclassical growth model that explains these …

standard model of endogenous economic growth under different behavioral assumptions. The solution rationalizes why the … too much with others or own past achievements is not supported by the workhorse model of endogenous economic growth. …

We present a multi-country theory of economic growth in which countries are connected by a network of mutual knowledge … exchange. Growth is generated through human capital accumulation and knowledge externalities. The available knowledge in any … industrial revolution. Knowledge diffusion through a Small World network produces an extraordinary diversity of individual growth …

expectancy. We integrate the theory into a unified growth model and reestablish increasing life expectancy as an engine of long …

We set up a unified growth model with gender-specific differences in tastes for consumption, fertility, education of … education, and sluggish economic growth towards a state of low fertility, high education, and fast economic growth if the child … quantity-quality preferences of spouses differ substantially. In this case targeted policies to empower women have the …

This paper considers an overlapping generations model of economic growth populated by two types of individuals … always fulfilled when the economy is capable of economic growth. The reason for this phenomenon is that competitive types … competitive types in a society can be inevitable for long-run economic growth to exist. …