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64
Citations
44373
World Ranking
614
National Ranking
392

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Oded Galor is affiliated with Brown University in the United States and works primarily within the social sciences. Their research contributions focus on a range of subfields including demography, economics and econometrics, sociology and political science, management, monitoring, policy and law, as well as safety research.

The scientist's main areas of study encompass topics such as culture, economy, and development studies; insurance, mortality, demography, and risk management; rangeland management and livestock ecology; historical economic and social studies; economic growth and productivity; income, poverty, and inequality; and cultural differences and values.

Oded Galor has authored several recent papers, which include:

  • Diversity and Conflict (2020), Econometrica
  • Linguistic Traits and Human Capital Formation (2020), AEA Papers and Proceedings
  • Technology-Skill Complementarity in Early Phases of Industrialisation (2021), The Economic Journal
  • Structural Change, Elite Capitalism, and the Emergence of Labour Emancipation (2024), The Review of Economic Studies
  • The Journey of Humanity: Roots of Inequality in the Wealth of Nations (2020), Economics and Business Review/ The "Poznań University of Economics Review

The scholar frequently publishes in venues such as the SSRN Electronic Journal, where they have 20 publications, The Economic Journal, Econometrica, AEA Papers and Proceedings, and The Review of Economic Studies.

Among their frequent co-authors are Marc Klemp, Ömer Özak, Daniel Crisóstomo Wainstock, Quamrul H. Ashraf, and Raphaël Franck.

In 2020, Oded Galor was recognized as a Member of the Academia Europaea.

Best Publications

  • Income Distribution and Macroeconomics

    Oded Galor;Joseph Zeira

  • The Gender Gap, Fertility and Growth

    Oded Galor;David N. Weil

  • Population, Technology, and Growth: From Malthusian Stagnation to the Demographic Transition and Beyond

    Oded Galor;David N. Weil

  • Convergence? Inferences from Theoretical Models

    Oded Galor

  • From Physical to Human Capital Accumulation: Inequality and the Process of Development

    Oded Galor;Omer Moav

  • From Stagnation to Growth: Unified Growth Theory

    Oded Galor

  • Technological Progress, Mobility, and Economic Growth

    Oded Galor;Daniel Tsiddon

  • Natural selection and the origin of economic growth

    Oded Galor;Omer Moav

  • A Theory of Career Mobility

    Nachum Sicherman;Oded Galor

  • The 'Out of Africa' Hypothesis, Human Genetic Diversity, and Comparative Economic Development

    Quamrul Ashraf;Oded Galor

  • Unified Growth Theory

    Oded Galor

  • Technological Change, Technological Catch-up, and Capital Deepening: Relative Contributions to Growth and Convergence

    Subodh Kumar;R. Robert Russell

  • Inequality in Landownership, the Emergence of Human-Capital Promoting Institutions, and the Great Divergence

    Oded Galor;Omer Moav;Dietrich Vollrath

  • Ability-Biased Technological Transition, Wage Inequality, and Economic Growth

    Oded Galor;Omer Moav

  • From Malthusian stagnation to modern growth.

    Oded Galor;David N. Weil

  • The Distribution of Human Capital and Economic Growth

    Oded Galor;Daniel Tsiddon

  • The Agricultural Origins of Time Preference

    Oded Galor;Ömer Özak

  • Dynamics and Stagnation in the Malthusian Epoch

    Quamrul Ashraf;Oded Galor

  • Das Human-Kapital: A Theory of the Demise of the Class Structure

    Oded Galor;Omer Moav

  • Population, Technology, and Growth: From the Malthusian Regime to the Demographic Transition and Beyond

    Oded Galor;David N. Weil

  • Population, Technology, and Growth: From Malthusian Stagnation to the Demographic Transition

    Oded Galor;David N. Weil

Frequent Co-Authors

David N. Weil
David N. Weil Brown University
Oded Stark
Oded Stark University of Bonn
Hans-Joachim Voth
Hans-Joachim Voth University of Zurich
Gérard Roland
Gérard Roland University of California, Berkeley
Francesco Trebbi
Francesco Trebbi University of California, Berkeley

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