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dc.contributor.authorSpolaore, Enricoen
dc.contributor.authorWacziarg, Romainen
dc.date.accessioned2012-08-02-
dc.date.accessioned2012-08-20T10:38:00Z-
dc.date.available2012-08-20T10:38:00Z-
dc.date.issued2012-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/61054-
dc.description.abstractThe empirical literature on economic growth and development has moved from the study of proximate determinants to the analysis of ever deeper, more fundamental factors, rooted in long-term history. A growing body of new empirical work focuses on the measurement and estimation of the effects of historical variables on contemporary income by explicitly taking into account the ancestral composition of current populations. The evidence suggests that economic development is affected by traits that have been transmitted across generations over the very long run. This article surveys this new literature and provides a framework to discuss different channels through which intergenerationally transmitted characteristics may impact economic development, biologically (via genetic or epigenetic transmission) and culturally (via behavioral or symbolic transmission). An important issue is whether historically transmitted traits have affected development through their direct impact on productivity, or have operated indirectly as barriers to the diffusion of productivity-enhancing innovations across populations.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisher|aCenter for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo) |cMunichen
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aCESifo Working Paper |x3837en
dc.subject.jelO49en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.keywordeconomic growthen
dc.subject.keywordpersistenceen
dc.subject.keyworddiffusionen
dc.subject.keywordintergenerational transmissionen
dc.subject.keywordcultural transmissionen
dc.subject.stwWirtschaftswachstumen
dc.subject.stwEntwicklungen
dc.subject.stwWachstumstheorieen
dc.subject.stwGeschichteen
dc.subject.stwGeographieen
dc.subject.stwGenetiken
dc.subject.stwKulturen
dc.titleHow deep are the roots of economic development?-
dc.typeWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn720562503en
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen

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