| 来源类型 | Discussion paper |
| 规范类型 | 论文 |
| 来源ID | DP8998 |
| DP8998 How Deep Are the Roots of Economic Development? | |
| Enrico Spolaore; Romain Wacziarg | |
| 发表日期 | 2012-06-03 |
| 出版年 | 2012 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | The 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. |
| 主题 | International Trade and Regional Economics |
| 关键词 | Economic development Growth Intergenerational transmission Long-run persistence |
| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp8998 |
| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom) |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/537836 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Enrico Spolaore,Romain Wacziarg. DP8998 How Deep Are the Roots of Economic Development?. 2012. |
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