Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/272023 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 10379
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
Evidence suggests that the prehistoric Out of Africa Migration has impacted the degree of intra-population genetic and phenotypic diversity across the globe. This paper provides the first evidence that this migration has shaped cultural diversity. Leveraging a folklore catalogue of 958 oral traditions across the world, we find that ethnic groups further away from East Africa along the migratory routes have lower folkloric diversity. This pattern is consistent with the compression of genetic, phenotypic, and phonemic traits along the Out of Africa migration routes, setting conditions for the emergence and proliferation of differential cultural diversity and economic development across the world.
Subjects: 
diversity
culture
Out of Africa
folklore
JEL: 
O10
Z10
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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