Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/272695 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 16068
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Evidence suggests that the 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 show 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: 
Out of Africa migration
culture
diversity
folklore
JEL: 
O10
Z10
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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