Three essays on the economics of nomads and settlers
Journal: Tesis Doctorals en Xarxa (Consorci de Serveis Universitaris de Catalunya)
Year: 2017

This thesis looks at the interplay of nomadism and settlement in two different periods of history. In the first two chapters I develop a theory for the Neolithic Revolution, the transition form nomadic hunting and gathering to settled agriculture. I argue that an exogenous increase in climate seasonality made our ancestors become sedentary in order to store food. Once sedentary, inventing agriculture was only a matter of time. In the first chapter I construct a model encapsulating this intuition