| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w21242 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 21242 |
| Ancestry, Language and Culture | |
| Enrico Spolaore; Romain Wacziarg | |
| 发表日期 | 2015-06-08 |
| 出版年 | 2015 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | We explore the interrelationships between various measures of cultural distance. We first discuss measures of genetic distance, used in the recent economics literature to capture the degree of relatedness between countries. We next describe several classes of measures of linguistic, religious, and cultural distances. We introduce new measures of cultural distance based on differences in average answers to questions from the World Values Survey. Using a simple theoretical model we hypothesize that ancestral distance, measured by genetic distance, is positively correlated with linguistic, religious, and cultural distance. An empirical exploration of these correlations shows this to be the case. This empirical evidence is consistent with the view that genetic distance is a summary statistic for a wide array of cultural traits transmitted intergenerationally. |
| 主题 | International Economics ; Trade ; Development and Growth ; Development ; Innovation and R& ; D ; Growth and Productivity ; Country Studies ; Other ; Culture |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w21242 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/578917 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Enrico Spolaore,Romain Wacziarg. Ancestry, Language and Culture. 2015. |
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