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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,...
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, partly in response to policies. Our results suggest that more segregated countries in terms of ethnicity and language, i …
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We investigate the empirical relationship between ethnicity and culture, defined as a vector of traits reflecting norms … overlap between culture and ethnicity, finding that the level of economic development is positively associated with cultural … diversity and negatively associated with the overlap between culture and ethnicity. Finally, although only a small portion of a …
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What obstacles prevent the most productive technologies from spreading to less developed economies from the world's technological frontier? In this paper, we seek to shed light on this question by quantifying the geographic and human barriers to the transmission of technologies. We argue that...
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characteristics and on countries' regulatory differences. We show that individual characteristics, such as gender, age, and status in …
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' willingness to work with different coauthors. There are only small gender differences in the impacts of age on numbers of …
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