Oded Galor
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Oded Galor is an Israeli economist.
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[edit] Work
Oded Galor has made significant contributions to the study of development traps, population economics, the relationship between fertility, life expectancy, education, inequality and economic growth, technology and wage inequality, and the foundations of overlapping-generations models. His recent work has pioneered research into the interaction between human evolution and economic development, and the transition from stagnation to growth, where he has founded the field of unified growth theory which models the growth process over the entire history of the human species.
[edit] 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 Professor of Economics, a Core Faculty, in the Population and Training Center, and Faculty Associate of the Watson Institute for International Studies, at Brown University. He is also the Director of the Minerva Center for Macroeconomics and Growth (since 1999), a Co-director of the NBER research group on Income Distribution and Macroeconomics, (since 1995), a Member of the Academic Council, of DEGIT, Germany, (since 2005), a Member of the Scientific Committee, CRISS, Italy, (since 2005), and he is a Research Fellow of the CEPR (since 1995).
[edit] Selected publications
"Trade and the Great Divergence: The Family connection" (with A. Mountford) American Economic Review 96 (May 2006).
"Das Human Kapital: A Theory of the Demise of the Class Structure" (with O. Moav) , Review of Economic Studies, 73 (January 2006).
"The Transition from Stagnation to Growth," Handbook of Economic Growth, North Holland, 2005, 171-293.
"The Demographic Transition and the Emergence of Sustained Economic Growth," Journal of European Economic Association, 3, 494-504 (April-May 2005).
"From Physical to Human Capital Accumulation: Inequality in the Process of Development" (with O. Moav), Review of Economic Studies, 71, 1001-1026 (October 2004).
"Natural Selection and the Origin of Economic Growth" (with O. Moav) Quarterly Journal of Economics, 117, 1133-1192, (November 2002).
- Reprinted in "Readings in the Theory of Economic Development, D. Mookherjee and D. Ray eds. Blackwell, 2001.
"Evolution and Growth" (with O. Moav) European Economic Review, 45, 718-729, (May 2001).
- Reprinted in "Crosissance et Economiques des Regions" (French), Beine et. al. eds., De Boeck Universite, 2000.
"Ability-Biased Technological Change, Wage Inequality and Economic Growth" (with O. Moav). Quarterly Journal of Economics, 115, 469-498, (May 2000). Reprinted in: "Recent Developments in Growth Theory," D. Acemoglu ed., Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd,, 2004.
"Inequality and the Process of Development," European Economic Review, 44, 706-712 (May 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).
- Reprinted in: "Controversies in Macroeconomics: Growth, Trade and Policy," Blackwell, 1999.
"From Malthusian Stagnation to Modern Growth" (with D. Weil) American Economic Review, 89, 150-154, (May 1999).
"Technological Progress, Mobility, and Economic Growth," (with D. Tsiddon) American Economic Review, 87, 363-382, (June 1997).
"The Distribution of Human Capital, Technological Progress, and Economic Growth" (with D. Tsiddon), Journal of Economic Growth,2, 93-124. (March 1997).
"The Gender Gap, Fertility, and Growth," (with D. Weil) American Economic Review, 86, 374-387, (June 1996).
"Convergence? Inferences from Theoretical Models" Economic Journal, 106, 1056-1069, (July 1996).
"Global Productivity Shocks and Current Account Dynamics" (with S. Lin), International Economic Review, 35, 1001-1014, (November 1994).
"Tariff, Income distribution and Welfare in a Small Overlapping-Generations Economy" International Economic Review, 35, 173-192, (February, 1994).
"Income Distribution and Macroeconomics" (with J. Zeira), Review of Economics Studies, 60, 35-52, (January, 1993).
"Transitory Productivity Shocks and Long-run Output, (with D. Tsiddon), International Economic Review, 33, 921-933, (November 1992).
"A Two-Sector Overlapping-Generations Model: A characterization of the Dynamical System", Econometrica, 60, 351-386, (November, 1992).
"Growth Via External Public Debt and Capital Controls", (with H. Dellas), International Economic Review, 33, 269-282, (May 1992).
"The Probability of Return Migration, Migrants' Work Effort, and Migrants' Performance", (with O. Stark), Journal of Development Economics, 35, 399-405, (April 1991).
"Search Unemployment in an Overlapping-Generations Setting", (with S. Lach), International Economic Review, 31, 409-419, (May 1990).
"Migrants' Savings, The probability of Return Migration and Migrants' Performance", (with O. Stark), International Economic Review, 31, 463-467, (May 1990).
"A Theory of Career Mobility", (with N. Sicherman), Journal of Political Economy, 98, 169-192, (February 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, (December 1989).
"The Long-Run Implications of a Hicks-Neutral Technical Progress", International Economic Review, 29, 177-184, (February 1988).
"Intertemporal Equilibrium and the Transfer Paradox", (with H. Polemarchakis), Review of Economics Studies, 54, 147-184, (January 1987).
"Global Dynamic Inefficiency in the Absence of International Policy Coordination", Journal of International Economics, 21, 137-150, (August 1986).
"Minimum Wage in a General Equilibrium Model of International Trade and Human Capital", (with K. Flug), International Economic Review, 27, 149-164, (February 1986).
"Time Preference and International Labor Migration", Journal of Economic Theory, 38, 1-20, (February 1986).
[edit] Affiliations
- Editor, Journal of Economic Growth, 1995 -
- Co-director of the NBER research group on Income Distribution and Macroeconomics, 1995 -
- Editor, Foundations and Trends in Economic Growth, 2006 -
- Research Fellow, CEPR , 1995 -
