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Be Fruitful and Multiply? Moderate Fecundity and Long-Run Reproductive Success
Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc - Brown University, Department of Economics - 2013
a larger predisposition towards child quality, contributing to the onset of the demographic transition and the evolution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011196604
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Be Fruitful and Multiply? Moderate Fecundity and Long-Run Reproductive Success
Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
a larger predisposition towards child quality, contributing to the onset of the demographic transition and the evolution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110672
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Evolution and the Growth Process:Natural Selection of Entrepreneurial Traits
Galor, Oded; Michalopoulos, Stelios - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2012
This research suggests that a Darwinian evolution of entrepreneurial spirit played asignificant role in the process of … economic development and the dynamics of inequality withinand across societies. The study argues that entrepreneurial spirit … evolved non-monotonicallyin the course of human history. In early stages of development, risk-tolerant, growthpromoting traits …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009486959
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"The Biocultural Origins of Human Capital Formation"
Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc - Brown University, Department of Economics - 2014
capital formation, the onset of the demographic transition and the evolution of societies from an epoch of stagnation to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011196590
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"The Agricultural Origins of Time Preference"
Galor, Oded; Ozak, Omer - Brown University, Department of Economics - 2014
This research explores the origins of the distribution of time preference across regions. It advances the hypothesis, and establishes empirically, that geographical variations in the incentives to delay consumption in favor of lucrative investment opportunities have had a persistent effect on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011196597
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Evolution and the Growth Process: Natural Selection of Entrepreneurial Traits
Galor, Oded; Michalopoulos, Stelios - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
This research suggests that the evolution of entrepreneurial spirit played a significant role in the process of … economic development and the dynamics of inequality within and across societies. The study argues that entrepreneurial spirit … evolved non-monotonically in the course of human history. In early stages of development, risk-tolerant, growth promoting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009002382
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Evolution and the Growth Process: Natural Selection of Entrepreneurial Traits
Galor, Oded; Michalopoulos, Stelios - Brown University, Department of Economics - 2011
This research suggests that the evolution of entrepreneurial spirit played a signi?cant role in the process of economic … development and the dynamics of inequality within and across societies. The study argues that entrepreneurial spirit evolved non …-monotonically in the course of human history. In early stages of development, risk-tolerant, growth promoting traits generated an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009003238
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Be Fruitful and Multiply? Moderate Fecundity and Long-Run Reproductive Success
Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
a larger predisposition towards child quality, contributing to the onset of the demographic transition and the evolution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010752232
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The Agricultural Origins of Time Preference
Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer - Southern Methodist University, Department of Economics - 2014
This research explores the origins of the distribution of time preference across regions. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically, that geographical variations in natural land productivity and their impact on the return to agricultural investment have had a persistent effect on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011003227
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The Agricultural Origins of Time Preference
Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer - CESifo - 2015
This research explores the origins of the distribution of time preference across regions. It advances the hypothesis, and establishes empirically that geographical variations in the natural return to agricultural investment have had a persistent effect on the distribution of time preference...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011167137