Is there a role for genetics in economic development?

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 fi nd that the role of genetic distance disappears and o¤er two alternative interpretations of the patterns in the data.

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Year of publication:	2012
Authors:	Angeles, Luis
Institutions:	Scottish Institute for Research in Economics (SIRE)
Subject:	Genetics \| economic development \| European settlement

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Series:	SIRE Discussion Papers.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	The text is part of a series SIRE-DP-2012-08 Number 2012-08
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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