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来源类型	Discussion paper
规范类型	论文
来源ID	DP11366
	DP11366 The Influence of Ancestral Lifeways on Individual Economic Outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa
	Stelios Michalopoulos; Louis Putterman; David Weil
发表日期	2016-06-28
出版年	2016
语种	英语
摘要	Does a person’s historical lineage influence his or her current economic status? Motivated by a large literature in social sciences stressing the effect of an early transition to agriculture on current economic performance at the level of countries, we examine the relative contemporary status of individuals as a function of how much their ancestors relied on agriculture during the pre-industrial era. We focus on Africa, where by combining anthropological records of groups with individual-level survey data we can explore the effect of the historical lifeways of one’s forefathers. Within enumeration areas and occupational groups, we find that individuals from ethnicities that derived a larger share of subsistence from agriculture in the pre-colonial era are today more educated and wealthy. A tentative exploration of channels suggests that differences in attitudes and beliefs as well as differential treatment by others, including differential political power, may contribute to these divergent outcomes.
主题	Development Economics ; Economic History ; Macroeconomics and Growth
关键词	Ethnicity agriculture Culture Development Africa
URL	https://cepr.org/publications/dp11366
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/540180
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Stelios Michalopoulos,Louis Putterman,David Weil. DP11366 The Influence of Ancestral Lifeways on Individual Economic Outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa. 2016.