Achieving the American dream: cultural distance, cultural diversity and economic performance

This article explores the role of individual cultural distance on income, using the genetic distance as a proxy for cultural distance. We show that cultural distance has heterogeneous predictive power. In particular, culturally distant individuals living in regions with other individuals from more t...

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Main Authors: Rueda, V, Laval, G, Patin, E
Format: Working paper
Published: University of Oxford 2016