TY - UNPB

T1 - The Out of Africa Hypothesis of Comparative Economic Development

T2 - Common Misconceptions

AU - Ashraf, Quamrul H.

AU - Galor, Oded

AU - Klemp, Marc Patrick Brag

PY - 2018

Y1 - 2018

N2 - "The importance of the prehistoric migration of anatomically modern humans from Africa for comparative economic development has been the focus of a vibrant research agenda in the past decade. This influential literature has attracted the attention of some scholars from other disciplines, and in light of existing methodological gaps across fields, has perhaps unsurprisingly generated some significant misconceptions. This article examines the critical views expressed by some scholars from other disciplines, and establishes that they are based on fundamental misunderstandings of the statistical methodology, the conceptual framework, and the scope of the analysis that characterize this influential literature..

AB - "The importance of the prehistoric migration of anatomically modern humans from Africa for comparative economic development has been the focus of a vibrant research agenda in the past decade. This influential literature has attracted the attention of some scholars from other disciplines, and in light of existing methodological gaps across fields, has perhaps unsurprisingly generated some significant misconceptions. This article examines the critical views expressed by some scholars from other disciplines, and establishes that they are based on fundamental misunderstandings of the statistical methodology, the conceptual framework, and the scope of the analysis that characterize this influential literature..

M3 - Working paper

T3 - RePEc (Research Papers in Economics)

BT - The Out of Africa Hypothesis of Comparative Economic Development

ER -