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Is Poverty in our Genes?: A Reply to Ashraf and Galor
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Is Poverty in our Genes?: A Reply to Ashraf and Galor

Jade D'Alpoim Guedes, David Carrasco, Rowan Flad, Ethan Fosse, Michael Herzfeld, Cecil M. Lewis, Carl C. Lamberg-Karlovsky, Matthew Liebmann, Richard Meadow, Nick Patterson, …
Current anthropology, Vol.54(1), pp.71-79
2013
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https://hdl.handle.net/2376/5721
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Abstract

Genetic diversity Social science critique
The extent to which a paper written by economists Quamrul Ashraf and Oded Galor, which is forthcoming in the American Economic Review, is flawed on both factual and methodological grounds is presented. Aside from claiming that there is a causal effect of genetic diversity on economic success, the paper also heavily suggests that too much or too little genetic diversity hampers development.

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