The reason is that the human capital endowments of new cohorts rise more strongly when persistence is higher.
In this section we study the limiting behavior of the economy when the spread of initial endowments is vanishingly small.
The intermediary is not part of the initial distribution of endowments, but his technology allows costless transformation of any good in his consumption good.
We also could consider the monetary equilibria of the model (the "outside money" case) with the redefined endowments or with the original specification of endowments.
In terms of village equivalents, endowments amounted to 5.5 entire villages (3.2% of 169 villages).
Private endowments (mawq'h khass) were leased for thirty years.
In particular, we show that when the initial distribution of endowments becomes uniform the volume of productive activity vanishes.
A preoccupation with ethics is one of the cultural endowments that seems positive because it separates men from animals.
