TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Ashraf, Quamrul
AU  - Galor, Oded
        TI  - The Macrogenoeconomics of Comparative Development
        PY  - 2017/Jan/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 10474
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp10474
        AB  - The importance of evolutionary forces for comparative economic performance across societies has been the focus of a vibrant literature, highlighting the roles played by the Neolithic Revolution and the prehistoric "out of Africa" migration of anatomically modern humans in generating worldwide variations in the composition of human traits. This essay surveys this literature and examines the contribution of a recent hypothesis regarding the evolutionary origins of comparative economic development, set forth in Nicholas Wade's A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History, to this important line of research.
        KW  - genes
KW  - natural selection
KW  - human evolution
KW  - comparative development
KW  - race
KW  - the "out of Africa" hypothesis
KW  - genetic diversity
        ER  -