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Understanding cultural persistence and change: A replication of Giuliano and Nunn (2021)

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  • Simone Bertoli

    (CERDI - Centre d'Études et de Recherches sur le Développement International - IRD - Institut de Recherche pour le Développement - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - UCA - Université Clermont Auvergne)

  • Melchior Clerc

    (CERDI - Centre d'Études et de Recherches sur le Développement International - IRD - Institut de Recherche pour le Développement - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - UCA - Université Clermont Auvergne)

  • Jordan Loper

    (CERDI - Centre d'Études et de Recherches sur le Développement International - IRD - Institut de Recherche pour le Développement - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - UCA - Université Clermont Auvergne)

  • Èric Roca Fernández

    (CERDI - Centre d'Études et de Recherches sur le Développement International - IRD - Institut de Recherche pour le Développement - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - UCA - Université Clermont Auvergne)

Abstract

Giuliano and Nunn (2021) provide econometric evidence that ancestral climatic variability reduces the current importance of tradition. We conduct a "deep reproduction", comparing the precise descriptions of the individual‐level regressions in their article with the corresponding code. This analysis uncovers several major inconsistencies, also related to the code not included in their replication package. A published corrigendum addresses some inconsistencies we had also communicated to the Editor of REStud, but several remain, relating to a substantial portion of the observations. A realignment of the code with the text reveals a more nuanced relationship between ancestral climatic variability and tradition.

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  • Simone Bertoli & Melchior Clerc & Jordan Loper & Èric Roca Fernández, 2024. "Understanding cultural persistence and change: A replication of Giuliano and Nunn (2021)," Post-Print hal-04652620, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-04652620
    DOI: 10.1111/ecin.13242
    Note: View the original document on HAL open archive server: https://uca.hal.science/hal-04652620v1
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    1. Paola Giuliano & Nathan Nunn, 2021. "Understanding Cultural Persistence and Change [Cultural Assimilation During the Age of Mass Migration]," The Review of Economic Studies, Review of Economic Studies Ltd, vol. 88(4), pages 1541-1581.
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    1. Simone Bertoli & Melchior Clerc & Jordan Loper & Èric Roca Fernández, 2024. "Migration and the epidemiological approach: time and self-selection into foreign ancestries matter," Post-Print hal-04785817, HAL.

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    Keywords

    cultural persistence; tradition; deep reproduction. JEL classification codes: F22 Z13 N10 Q54; deep reproduction. JEL classification codes: F22;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • F22 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - International Migration
    • Z13 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics - - - Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification
    • N10 - Economic History - - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Industrial Structure; Growth; Fluctuations - - - General, International, or Comparative
    • Q54 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Climate; Natural Disasters and their Management; Global Warming

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