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Cultural distance and ethnic civil conflict
Guarnieri, Eleonora - 2023
cultural distance, proxied by linguistic distance, increases an ethnicity's propensity to fight over government power. To … identify this effect, I leverage within-ethnicity variation in linguistic distance resulting from power transitions between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014332085
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The impact of the prehistoric out-of-Africa migration on cultural diversity
Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc P. B.; Wainstock, Daniel … - 2023 - Original version: April 2023, this version: May 2023
Evidence suggests that the prehistoric Out of Africa Migration has impacted the degree of intra-population genetic and phenotypic diversity across the globe. This paper provides the first evidence that this migration has shaped cultural diversity. Leveraging a folklore catalogue of 958 oral...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014251953
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Gender, ethnicity, and cumulative disadvantage in education outcomes
Taş, Emcet O.; Reimão, Maira Emy; Orlando, Maria Beatriz - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 64 (2014), pp. 538-553
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010489200
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Gender, Ethnicity and Cumulative Disadvantage in Education : Evidence from Latin American and African Censuses
Taş, Emcet O. - 2017
This paper studies the impact of gender and ethnicity on educational outcomes using cross-country evidence from Bolivia … gender and ethnicity confers cumulative disadvantage for minority groups, especially in Latin America. The paper discusses … estimation method analogous to difference-in-differences, the paper finds that gender-based differences in literacy, primary …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973644
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The out of Africa hypothesis of comparative economic development : common misconceptions
Ashraf, Quamrul H.; Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc P. B. - 2019
The importance of the prehistoric migration of anatomically modern humans from Africa for comparative economic development has been the focus of a vibrant research agenda in the past decade. This influential literature has attracted the attention of some scholars from other disciplines, and in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011956347
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Migration and female genital mutilation
Mesplé-Somps, Sandrine - In: IZA World of Labor (2016)
More than 100 million women and girls in the world have had their genitals cut for cultural, religious, or other non-medical reasons. Even though international organizations condemn female genital mutilation (FGM), or cutting, as a violation of human rights, and most nations have banned it, it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011573672
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Weather shocks and migration intentions in Western Africa : insights from a multilevel analysis
Bertoli, Simone; Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel; … - 2020
We use a multilevel approach to characterize the relationship between weather shocks and (internal and international) migration intentions. We combine individual survey data on migration intentions with measures of localized weather shocks for Western African countries over 2008-2016. A...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012157241
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Polygyny, inequality, and social unrest
Krieger, Tim; Renner, Laura - 2020
related to the relative position of dependent family members in a clan; and (iii) gender inequality in general. Using data for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012206058
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Polygyny, inequality, and social unrest
Krieger, Tim; Renner, Laura - 2021
related to the relative position of dependent family members in a clan; and (iii) gender inequality in general. Using data for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013326493
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Mixed records, complexity, and ethnic voting in African elections
Ferree, Karen E.; Gibson, Clark C.; Long, James D. - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 141 (2021), pp. 1-10
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012821821