| 来源类型 | Discussion paper |
| 规范类型 | 论文 |
| 来源ID | DP12406 |
| DP12406 Frontier Culture: The Roots and Persistence of Rugged Individualism in the United States | |
| Samuel Bazzi; Martin Fiszbein; Mesay Gebresilasse | |
| 发表日期 | 2017-10-30 |
| 出版年 | 2017 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | The presence of a westward-moving frontier of settlement shaped early U.S. history. In 1893, the historian Frederick Jackson Turner famously argued that the American frontier fostered individualism. We investigate the Frontier Thesis and identify its long-run implications for culture and politics. We track the frontier throughout the 1790–1890 period and construct a novel, county-level measure of total frontier experience (TFE). Historically, frontier locations had distinctive demographics and greater individualism. Long after the closing of the frontier, counties with greater TFE exhibit more pervasive individualism and opposition to redistribution. This pattern cuts across known divides in the U.S., including urban–rural and north–south. We provide suggestive evidence on the roots of frontier culture: selective migration, an adaptive advantage of self-reliance, and perceived opportunities for upward mobility through effort. Overall, our findings shed new light on the frontier’s persistent legacy of rugged individualism. |
| 主题 | Development Economics ; Economic History |
| 关键词 | Culture Individualism Preferences for redistribution American frontier Persistence |
| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp12406-0 |
| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom) |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/541215 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Samuel Bazzi,Martin Fiszbein,Mesay Gebresilasse. DP12406 Frontier Culture: The Roots and Persistence of Rugged Individualism in the United States. 2017. |
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