economy may be trapped in a locally stable high-corruption, high-slavery equilibrium and major changes in government policies … reducing slavery in the export industry tend to raise slavery in the remainder of the economy. It is possible that this leakage … effect dominates the reduction of slavery in the export sector …

The importance of the prehistoric migration of anatomically modern humans from Africa for comparative economic …

We examine both theoretically and empirically how migration affects cultural change in home and host countries. Our … theoretical model integrates various compositional and cultural transmission mechanisms of migration-based cultural change for … the host country's culture. While migrants do act as vectors of cultural diffusion and bring about cultural convergence …

-of-origin cultural traits in models with residence-country fixed effects. Associations of culture with family and school inputs suggest …