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Ancestry, language and culture

Spolaore, Enrico; Wacziarg, Romain - 2015

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Ancestry, language and culture

Spolaore, Enrico; Wacziarg, Romain - 2015

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Ancestry, Language and Culture

Spolaore, Enrico - 2015

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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Ancestry, language and culture

Spolaore, Enrico; Wacziarg, Romain - In: The Palgrave handbook of the economics and language, (pp. 174-211). 2016

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The political economy of heterogeneity and conflict

Spolaore, Enrico; Wacziarg, Romain - 2016

In this paper we present a conceptual framework linking cultural heterogeneity to inter-group conflict. When conflict is about control of public goods, more heterogeneous groups are expected to fight more with each other. In contrast, when conflict is about rival goods, more similar groups are...

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The political economy of heterogeneity and conflict

Spolaore, Enrico; Wacziarg, Romain - 2017

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Ancestry, language and culture

Spolaore, Enrico; Wacziarg, Romain - 2015

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010533086

The political economy of heterogeneity and conflict

Spolaore, Enrico; Wacziarg, Romain - In: Disrupted economic relationships : disasters, …, (pp. 7-44). 2019

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Culture, Ethnicity and Diversity

Desmet, Klaus; Ortuño-Ortín, Ignacio; Wacziarg, Romain - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

We investigate the empirical relationship between ethnicity and culture, defined as a vector of traits reflecting norms … predictor of cultural values, yet that within-group variation in culture trumps between-group variation. Thus, in contrast to a … overlap between culture and ethnicity, finding that the level of economic development is positively associated with cultural …

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Barriers to Global Capital Allocation

Pellegrino, Bruno; Spolaore, Enrico; Wacziarg, Romain - 2021

We quantify the impact of barriers to international investment, using a novel multi-country dynamic general equilibrium model with heterogeneous investors and imperfect capital mobility. Our model yields a gravity equation for bilateral foreign asset positions. We estimate this gravity equation...

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