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Understanding Cultural Persistence and Change: A Replication of Giuliano and Nunn (2021)

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  • Bertoli, Simone
  • Clerc, Melchior
  • Loper, Jordan
  • Roca Fernández, Èric

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Giuliano and Nunn (2021), GN henceforth, provide econometric evidence that ancestral climatic variability is negatively associated with the current importance of tradition using a variety of data sources. This replication focuses on the results that use individual-level data and identifies major discrepancies between several econometric specifications described in the article and their corresponding code. We are able to correct most of these mistakes by realigning the code with the text. Once corrections are implemented, we obtain almost invariably a smaller and non-significant coefficient for climatic variability.

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  • Bertoli, Simone & Clerc, Melchior & Loper, Jordan & Roca Fernández, Èric, 2024. "Understanding Cultural Persistence and Change: A Replication of Giuliano and Nunn (2021)," I4R Discussion Paper Series 116, The Institute for Replication (I4R).
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    • 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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