Ancestral Characteristics of Modern Populations

Paola Giuliano and Nathan Nunn

No 11528, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: We construct a database, with global coverage, that provides measures of the cultural and environmental characteristics of the pre-industrial ancestors of the world's current populations. In this paper, we describe the construction of the database, including the underlying data, the procedure to produce the estimates, and the structure of the final data. We then provide illustrations of some of the variation in the data and provide an illustration of how the data can be used.

Keywords: cultural traits; persistence; historical development; political institutions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: N00 Z10 Z13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 22 pages
Date: 2018-05
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-evo, nep-gro, nep-his and nep-soc
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Published - published in: Economic History of Developing Regions, 2018, 33 (1), 1-17

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