Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/202605 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 2018-13
Publisher: 
Brown University, Department of Economics, Providence, RI
Abstract: 
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.
Subjects: 
Comparative development
interpersonal population diversity
the out of Africa hypothesis
JEL: 
O11
N10
N30
Z10
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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