Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/180546 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 11528
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We construct a database, with global coverage, that provides measures of the cultural and environmental characteristics of the pre-industrial ancestors of the world's current populations. In this paper, we describe the construction of the database, including the underlying data, the procedure to produce the estimates, and the structure of the final data. We then provide illustrations of some of the variation in the data and provide an illustration of how the data can be used.
Subjects: 
historical development
persistence
cultural traits
political institutions
JEL: 
N00
Z10
Z13
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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