Population diversity, division of labor and the emergence of trade and state

This research explores the emergence and prevalence of economic specialization and trade in pre-modern societies. It advances the hypothesis, and establishes empirically that population diversity had a positive causal effect on economic specialization and trade. Based on a novel ethnic level dataset combining geocoded ethnographic and genetic data, this research exploits the exogenous variation in population diversity generated by the "Out-of-Africa" migration of anatomically modern humans to causally establish the positive effect of population diversity on economic specialization and the emergence of trade-related institutions, which, in turn, facilitated the historical formation of states. Additionally, it provides suggestive evidence that regions historically inhabited by pre-modern societies with high levels of economic specialization have a larger occupational heterogeneity and are more developed today.

• Autores: Depetris Chauvin, Emilio; Özak Muñoz, Ömer
• Tipo de recurso: Work document
• Fecha de publicación: 2015
• Institución: Universidad de los Andes
• Repositorio: Séneca: repositorio Uniandes
• Idioma: eng
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorio.uniandes.edu.co:1992/8620
• Acceso en línea: http://hdl.handle.net/1992/8620
• Palabra clave: Economic specialization; Division of labor; Trade; State formation; Population diversity; Population heterogeneity; Genetic diversity; Diversity; Emergence of state; Persistence; Out of Africa; Empleo - Clasificación; División del trabajo; Diversidad cultural; Estado - Historia; D74, F10, N47, O10, O17, Z10
• Rights: openAccess
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/