- Oded Galor
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Oded Galor is Herbert H. Goldberger Professor of Economics at Brown University.
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Work
Galor has made significant contributions to the study of income distribution and economic growth, the transition from stagnation to growth, and human evolution and economic development. He has made other significant contributions to the study of development traps, the demographic transition, and the advancement of the foundations of overlapping-generations models.
Galor has founded the field of unified growth theory which models the growth process over the entire history of the human species. Moreover he has pioneered research on the interaction between human evolution and economic development.
Career
He completed his BA and MA at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and his PhD at Columbia University. He served as a Chilewich Professor of Economics at the Hebrew University, and he is currently the Herbert H. Goldberger Professor of Economics at Brown University. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Economic Growth, a co-director of the NBER research group on Income Distribution and Macroeconomics, and a Research Fellow of the CEPR.
Selected publications
"Dynamics and Stagnation in the Malthusian Epoch" (with Q. Ashraf) American Economic Review 101 (2011).
"The 2008 Lawrence R. Klein Lecture-Comparative Economic Development: Insights From Unified Growth Theory" International Economic Review 51, 1-44, (2010).
"Inequality in Landownership, the Emergence of Human-Capital Promoting Institutions, and the Great Divergence" (with O. Moav and D. Vollrath) Review of Economic Studies, 76, 143-179, (2009).
"Trading Population from Productivity" Review of Economic Studies, 75, 1143-1179, (2008).
"Trade and the Great Divergence: The Family connection" (with A. Mountford) American Economic Review 96, 299-303, (2006).
"Das Human Kapital: A Theory of the Demise of the Class Structure" (with O. Moav) , Review of Economic Studies, 73, 85-117, (2006).
"TFrom Stagnation to Growth: Unified Growth Theory" Handbook of Economic Growth, North Holland, (2005).
"From Physical to Human Capital Accumulation: Inequality in the Process of Development" (with O. Moav), Review of Economic Studies, 71, 1001-1026, (2004).
"Natural Selection and the Origin of Economic Growth" (with O. Moav) Quarterly Journal of Economics, 117, 1133-1192, (2002).
"Ability-Biased Technological Change, Wage Inequality and Economic Growth" (with O. Moav). Quarterly Journal of Economics, 115, 469-498, (2000).
"Population, Technology, and Growth: From the Malthusian Regime to the Demographic Transition and Beyond," (with D. Weil). American Economic Review, 90, 806-828, (September 2000).
"From Malthusian Stagnation to Modern Growth," (with D. Weil) American Economic Review, 89, 150-154 (1997).
"Technological Progress, Mobility, and Economic Growth," (with D. Tsiddon) American Economic Review, 87, 363-382, (1997).
"The Gender Gap, Fertility, and Growth," (with D. Weil) American Economic Review, 86, 374-387, (1996).
"Convergence? Inferences from Theoretical Models" Economic Journal, 106, 1056-1069, (1996).
"Income Distribution and Macroeconomics" (with J. Zeira), Review of Economics Studies, 60, 35-52, (1993).
"A Two-Sector Overlapping-Generations Model: A characterization of the Dynamical System", Econometrica, 60, 1351-1386, (1992).
"A Theory of Career Mobility", (with N. Sicherman), Journal of Political Economy, 98, 169-192, (1990).
"Existence, Uniqueness and Stability of Equilibrium in an Overlapping-Generations Model with Productive Capital", (with H. Ryder), Journal of Economic Theory, 49, 360-375, (1989).
Affiliations
- Editor, Journal of Economic Growth, 1995 -
- Co-director of the NBER research group on Income Distribution and Macroeconomics, 1995 -
- Research Fellow, CEPR , 1995 -
External links
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- Israeli economists
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