Oded Galor

Oded Galor
Born	1953 (age 63–64)
Nationality	Israeli
Institution	Brown University
Field	Macroeconomics, growth theory
Alma mater	Columbia University Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Contributions	Unified growth theory
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Oded Galor (born 1953) is an Israeli economist. He is currently Herbert H. Goldberger Professor of Economics at Brown University.

Galor has made significant contributions to the study of income distribution and economic growth, the transition from stagnation to growth, and human evolution and economic development. He has made other significant contributions to the study of development traps, the demographic transition, and the advancement of the foundations of overlapping-generations models.

Galor has founded the field of Unified Growth Theory, which models the growth process over the entire history of the human species. He has also pioneered research on the interaction between human evolution and economic development. His latest research has been on the deep determinants of economic growth over the long run, primarily the effect of genetic diversity on income growth.

In 2010 Galor published a textbook on Discrete Dynamical Systems; and in the following year of 2011, authored a definitive textbook on Unified Growth Theory.

Galor completed his BA (1978) and MA (1980) at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and his PhD (1984) at Columbia University. He served as a Chilewich Professor of Economics at the Hebrew University, and he is currently the Herbert H. Goldberger Professor of Economics at Brown University. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Economic Growth, a co-director of the NBER research group on Income Distribution and Macroeconomics, and a Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research.

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