New and Majorly Revised Papers

Galor Oded “2008 Lawrence R. Klein Lecture -- Comparative Economic Development: Insights from Unified Growth Theory,” September 14, 2009.

Ashraf Quamrul, Oded Galor and Omer Ozak, “Isolation and Development,” September 14, 2009.

Galor Oded, Omer Moav and Dietrich Vollrath, “Inequality in Land Ownership, the Emergence of Human Capital Promoting Institutions and the Great Divergence”, Review of Economic Studies, 76(1), January 2009, 143-179.

Galor Oded and Andrew Mountford, “Trading Population for Productivity: Theory and Evidence”, Review of Economic Studies, 75(4), October 2008, 1143-1179.

¨ Discussion in Dani Rodrik’s Blog

¨ Highlights: Vox - Research Based Policy Analysis

“Towards a Unified Theory of Economic Growth” An interview by Brian Snowdon, World Economics, 9(2), April-June 2008, 97-151.

Ashraf Quamrul and Oded Galor, “Human Genetic Diversity and Comparative Economic Development,” Revised: June, 2008

¨ Discussion: “Guns, Germs, and Steel (and Genetics)”

¨ Discussion in Gene Expression

Galor Oded and Omer Moav, “The Neolithic Origins of Contemporary Variation in Life Expectancy”, November 2007

¨ Discussion in Gene Expression

Ashraf Quamrul and Oded Galor, “Cultural Assimilation, Cultural Diffusion and the Origin of the Wealth of Nations,” December 2007

¨ Highlights: Vox - Research Based Policy Analysis

¨ Wall Street Journal - Blog

Ashraf Quamrul and Oded Galor, “Dynamics and Stagnation in the Malthusain Epoch: Theory and Evidence”, (Revised: October 8, 2008).

Ashraf Quamrul and Oded Galor, “The Out of Africa Hypothesis, Human Genetic Diversity and Comparative Development ”, (To be posted in October 2009).