Essays on economic development, human capital, technology and inequality

This thesis investigates the relationship between human capital and technology, by one side and the ancestral genetic diversity of populations, by the other. Then, it seeks to understand the determinants of several inventions that occurred during the process of industrial revolutions. Finally, it pr...

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Main Author: Santos, Marcelo Serra (author)
Format: doctoralThesis
Language:eng
Published: 2016
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10400.6/3956
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:ubibliorum.ubi.pt:10400.6/3956