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What Hump-Shaped Relationship?

What Hump-Shaped Relationship?

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Apr 20, 2019
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American Economic Review is arguably the most prestigious economics journal in the world. So it was especially worrying to see them publish Ashraf and Galor's thesis claiming a hump-shaped relationship between genetic diversity and economic development. The claim has a certain plausibility to it. Very high diversity can be expected to generate ethnic fr…

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