highlights the indelible mark of the exodus of Homo sapiens from Africa tens of thousands of years ago on the degree of …This essay explores the deepest roots of comparative economic development. It underscores the significance of … evolutionary processes since the Neolithic Revolution in shaping a society's endowment of fundamental traits, such as …

intergenerational transfers. We characterize the optimal set of allocation decisions that maximizes reproductive fitness. Time … preference (the discount rate) is derived from the marginal rate of substitution between energy obtained at two different times … with humans. During the immature phase, time preference depends only on the compounding effect of body growth, much like …

intergenerational transfers. We characterize the optimal set of allocation decisions that maximizes reproductive fitness. Time … preference (the discount rate) is derived from the marginal rate of substitution between energy obtained at two different times … with humans. During the immature phase, time preference depends only on the compounding effect of body growth, much like …

A group of decision makers simultaneously make contributions towards a green fund that reduces the future probability … of a climate catastrophe. We derive the theoretical predictions of the effects on contributions arising from 'behavioral … parameters' such as loss aversion and present-bias; 'structural factors' such as variation in the timing of uncertainty; the …