This paper provides a synthesis of theoretical and empirical work on the Great Gatsby
Curve, the positive empirical relationship between cross-sectional income inequality, and …

The concept of generations has become increasingly important in the social science fields to
explain diverse phenomena affecting organizations. This is especially true in the family …

In this article, we use cross-state panel and cross-US commuting-zone data to look at the
relationship between innovation, top income inequality and social mobility. We find positive …

We develop a theory of parent‐child relations that rationalizes the choice between
alternative parenting styles (as set out in Baumrind, 1967). Parents maximize an objective …

For most of the vast span of human history, economic growth was all but nonexistent. Then,
about two centuries ago, some nations began to emerge from this epoch of economic …

We analyze an economy where firms undertake both innovation and adoption of
technologies from the world technology frontier. The selection of high-skill managers and …

This paper develops a growth theory that captures the replacement of physical capital
accumulation by human capital accumulation as a prime engine of growth along the process …

The causes and consequences of the intergenerational persistence of inequality are a topic
of great interest among various fields in economics. However, until now, issues of data …

The transition from stagnation to growth and the associated phenomenon of the great
divergence have been the subject of an intensive research in the growth literature in recent …

This research develops an evolutionary growth theory that captures the interplay between
the evolution of mankind and economic growth since the emergence of the human species …