ODED GALOR

Oded Galor is the founder of the field of Unified Growth Theory. His research focuses on the transition from stagnation to growth, comparative economic development, the interaction between human evolution and economic development, the relationship between inequality and economic growth.

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Biography

Oded Galor 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 Herbert H. Goldberger 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.

Oded Galor has served on numerous editorial boards. He has been the Editor of the principle journal in his field - the Journal of Economic Growth. In addition he has been a Member of the Editorial Board of Economics and Human Biology and the Journal of Economic Inequality, the Journal of Population Economics, and Macroeconomic Dynamics, and a Member of the Advisory Board of the Journal of Economic Research. Moreover, he was a member of the editorial council of the Review of International Economics, and the Review of Development Economics and an Associate Editor of the Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking.

Oded Galor is a Co-director of the NBER research group on Income Distribution and Macroeconomics, he is a Research Fellow of the CEPR and IZA, a Research Associate of the NBER, a Member of the Academic Council, of DEGIT, Germany, a Member of the Scientific Committee, CRISS, Italy. He was the Director of the Minerva Center for Macroeconomics and Growth over the period 1999-2007.

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ODED GALOR
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