The agricultural origins of time preference

American Economic Review

Volumn 106, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 3064-3103

  Galor, Oded ^a   Özak, Ömer ^b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; CROP; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; EUROPE; HISTORY; HUMAN; MIGRATION; SMOKING; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TIME; UNITED STATES;

AGRICULTURE; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; EUROPE; HISTORY, 15TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 16TH CENTURY; HUMANS; SMOKING; TIME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84991785860     PISSN: 00028282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1257/aer.20150020     Document Type: Article

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