Is there a role for genetics in economic development?

Luis Angeles ()

Working Papers from Business School - Economics, University of Glasgow

Abstract: Spolaore and Wacziarg (2009) have presented evidence supporting a role of genetic distance to the United States as a barrier to economic development. We extend their empirical work by controlling for the share of Europeans and European descendants in the population. We find that the role of genetic distance disappears and o¤er two alternative interpretations of the patterns in the data.

Keywords: Genetics; economic development; European settlement. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O1 O3 O4 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012-01
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