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

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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.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: I4R Discussion Paper Series ; No. 116

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; International Migration ; Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification ; Economic History: Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Industrial Structure; Growth; Fluctuations: General, International, or Comparative ; Climate; Natural Disasters and Their Management; Global Warming
• Subject: cultural persistence ; tradition ; languages

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Bertoli, Simone ; Clerc, Melchior ; Loper, Jordan ; Roca Fernández, Èric
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute for Replication (I4R)
• (where): s.l.
• (when): 2024

Further information

• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET