| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w21907 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 21907 |
| The Influence of Ancestral Lifeways on Individual Economic Outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa | |
| Stelios Michalopoulos; Louis Putterman; David N. Weil | |
| 发表日期 | 2016-01-25 |
| 出版年 | 2016 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Does a person's historical lineage influence his or her current economic status? Motivated by a large literature in social sciences stressing the effect of an early transition to agriculture on current economic performance at the level of countries, we examine the relative contemporary status of individuals as a function of how much their ancestors relied on agriculture during the pre-industrial era. We focus on Africa, where by combining anthropological records of groups with individual level survey data we can explore the effect of the historical lifeways of one's forefathers. Within enumeration areas and occupational groups, we find that individuals from ethnicities that derived a larger share of subsistence from agriculture in the precolonial era are today more educated and wealthy. A tentative exploration of channels suggests that differences in attitudes and beliefs as well as differential treatment by others, including differential political power, may contribute to these divergent outcomes. |
| 主题 | Development and Growth ; Development ; Growth and Productivity ; Other ; Culture |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w21907 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/579582 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Stelios Michalopoulos,Louis Putterman,David N. Weil. The Influence of Ancestral Lifeways on Individual Economic Outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa. 2016. |
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| w21907.pdf（1188KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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