The Diffusion of Development

By Enrico Spolaore, Romain Wacziarg. 2006

868 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Demography, Economics and Econometrics

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In Demography

1. Romain Wacziarg
2. Giovanni Peri
3. Ignacio Ortuño-Ortin
4. Klaus Desmet
5. Jens Suedekum
6. A. Alesina
7. Elias Papaioannou
8. Y. Gorodnichenko

In Economics and Econometrics

1. Giovanni Peri
2. Romain Wacziarg
3. Gabriel Felbermayr
4. Klaus Desmet
5. Christopher A. Parsons
6. Ignacio Ortuño-Ortin
7. A. Alesina
8. Ross Levine

Citations in the corpus

• Migration and Development: Dissecting the Anatomy of the Mobility Transition (2017, methodology): “isolation) from Spolaore and Wacziarg (2009). Genetic distance is based on blood samples and proxies the time since the two populations shared common ancestors.”
• The roots of ethnic diversity (2012, background): “evolution in a long-run perspective is Spolaore and Wacziarg (2006) and Ashraf and Galor”
• Pre-colonial Ethnic Institutions and Contemporary African Development (2012, result): “The jurisdictional hierarchy index equals zero or one for the Amba, the Konkomba, the Tiv, the Dinka, and the Lugbara, in line with the analysis of Middleton and Tait (1958) who describe them as acephalous societies. Regarding the Amba, for example, Winter (1958) writes that “the village is the larg”
• Trade Credit Provision and National Culture (2016, background): “Spolaore and Wacziarg (2009) Peers receivables/sales Average Receivables/sales of firms in the same country, industry, and year, excluding the focal firm.”
• Lost in Translation? The Effect of Cultural Values on Mergers Around the World (2015, neutral): “We use FST distance, which measures the probability that two random alleles (DNA variations) from two populations will be different (CavalliSforza, Menozzi, and Piazza, 1994; Spolaore and Wacziarg, 2009).”
• Ancestry, Language and Culture (2015, neutral): “This measure of genetic distance in 1500 can either be used as an instrument for contemporary genetic distance (Spolaore and Wacziarg, 2009), or as an independent variable in applications that seek to explain pre-Industrial economic outcomes (Spolaore and Wacziarg, 2013).”
• Culture, Institutions, and the Wealth of Nations (2017, positive): “In a series of robustness checks, we also employ aggregate measures of genetic distance constructed in CavalliSforza et al. (1994) based on a larger set of markers and that were used in Spolaore and Wacziarg (2009).”
• The Political Economy of Linguistic Cleavages (2012, background): “One issue is that standard indices of diversity do not take into account the distance between groups (Desmet et al., 2009; Fearon, 2003; Spolaore and Wacziarg, 2009).”
• Collectivism and corruption in bank lending (2013, neutral): “online appendix of Spolaore and Wacziarg (2009). (17)Using an alternative dependent variable that”