Oded Galor
Encyclopedia
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
Unified growth theory
Unified growth theory was developed to address the inability of endogenous growth theory to explain key empirical regularities in the growth processes of individual economies and the world economy as a whole. Endogenous growth theory was satisfied with accounting for empirical regularities in the...
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 JerusalemHebrew University of Jerusalem
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem ; ; abbreviated HUJI) is Israel's second-oldest university, after the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. The Hebrew University has three campuses in Jerusalem and one in Rehovot. The world's largest Jewish studies library is located on its Edmond J...
and his PhD at Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
. 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
Brown University
Brown University is a private, Ivy League university located in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations early in the reign of King George III ,...
. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Economic Growth
Journal of Economic Growth
The Journal of Economic Growth is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering research in economic growth and dynamic macroeconomics. It was established in 1996 and is published by Springer Science+Business Media...
, a co-director of the NBER research group on Income Distribution and Macroeconomics, and a Research Fellow of the CEPR
CEPR
The acronym CEPR may refer to:* Centre for Economic Policy Research, a London-based European network of economists, founded in 1983* Center for Economic and Policy Research, a progressive think tank in Washington, D.C., founded in 1999...
.
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, CEPRCEPRThe acronym CEPR may refer to:* Centre for Economic Policy Research, a London-based European network of economists, founded in 1983* Center for Economic and Policy Research, a progressive think tank in Washington, D.C., founded in 1999...
, 1995 -