The Diffusion of Development

Spolaore, Enrico; Wacziarg, Romain

doi:10.3386/w12153

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“…One of our instruments here is the so-called linguistic proximity from the US and the genetic distance from Norway. Both variables are developed by Spolaore and Wacziarg (2009) and we use them as they are available in the database provided by Davis and Abdurazokzoda (2016). Both are proxies for the cultural distance from the US or Norway.…”

Section: Capitalistic Mentality Economic Freedom Income and Inequamentioning

confidence: 99%

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How Is the Pro‐capitalist Mentality Globally Distributed?

Czeglédi¹,

Newland²

2018

Economic Affairs

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This article demonstrates the existence of conglomerates of nations that seem to have similar ideological attitudes towards capitalism. The main finding is the existence of relatively homogeneous global cultural clusters, the Anglosphere and Northern European nations showing the highest appreciation for free markets, followed by the Sinosphere. The rest of the world tends to be more anti‐capitalist, with the Middle East and Eastern Europe standing out for being at the end of the spectrum. Statistical analysis suggests that the capitalist mentality is to some extent autonomous, and does not seem to be determined strongly by other variables such as income, growth or inequality. At the same time, the capitalistic mentality appears to correlate with economic freedom, as measured by the Economic Freedom of the World index. If a pro‐capitalist ideology is connected to institutional development, then some conglomerates seem to be in a better position to attain or maintain economic growth in the future.

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Section: Capitalistic Mentality Economic Freedom Income and Inequamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…†The instruments in column 3 are the conglomerates dummies used in the regressions of Table 2. ‡The instruments in column 4 are the linguistic proximity from the US and genetic distance from Norway developed in Spolaore and Wacziarg (2009) and provided by Davis and Abdurazokzoda (2016).…”

Section: Capitalistic Mentality Economic Freedom Income and Inequamentioning

confidence: 99%

How Is the Pro‐capitalist Mentality Globally Distributed?

Czeglédi¹,

Newland²

2018

Economic Affairs

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“…Guiso et al (2005) use genetic distance as an instrument for trust. Spolaore and Wacziarg (2006) find that genetic distance is correlated with differences in income between countries. To the best of my knowledge, this measure has not been applied to measure fractionalization.…”

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Fractionalization and Inter‐Group Differences

Lind

2007

Kyklos

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Fractionalization has been shown to have a detrimental effect on growth, public goods provision, and redistribution. However, the conventional measure of fractionalization, the Herfindahl index, implicitly assumes that all groups are equally distant.In this paper, I argue that a more appropriate measure of fractionalization should take into account that some groups are more different than others. I present a simple method to estimate these distances from opinion survey data and show an application to the US.

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“…Caselli and Coleman (2006) stress the importance of ethnic distance in a theoretical model and propose to measure it using surveys of anthropologists. Finally, a few recent contributions underline the correlation between genetic distance and pairwise income differences, trust and trade flows (Giuliano et al 2006;Spolaore and Wacziarg 2009;Guiso et al 2009).…”

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confidence: 99%