Metadata record for Replication data for: The Agricultural Origins of Time Preference
113035
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Replication data for: The Agricultural Origins of Time Preference
113035
http://doi.org/10.3886/E113035V1
Oded Galor
Ömer Özak
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Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
Galor, Oded, and Özak, Ömer. Replication data for: The Agricultural Origins of Time Preference. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2016. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/E113035V1
[Savings, Patience, Agricultural suitability,, Time Preference, Caloric Suitability Index, Long-Term Orientation, Human Capital, Technology Adoption, Smoking]
D72 Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
G21 Banks; Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages
G28 Financial Institutions and Services: Government Policy and Regulation
This research explores the origins of observed differences in time preference across countries and regions. Exploiting a natural experiment associated with the expansion of suitable crops for cultivation in the course of the Columbian Exchange, the research establishes that pre-industrial agro-climatic characteristics which were conducive to higher return to agricultural investment triggered selection, adaptation, and learning processes that generated a persistent positive effect on the prevalence of long-term orientation in the contemporary era. Furthermore, the research establishes that these agro-climatic characteristics have had a culturally embodied impact on economic behavior such as technological adoption, education, saving, and smoking.
World
Global
Countries
Regions within Countries
Individuals within Countries
Second-Generation Migrants in Europe
Multiple samples
[survey data, geographic information system (GIS) data, observational data, program source code, aggregate data]
Multiple data sources including: Caloric Suitability Index (https://ozak.github.io/Caloric-Suitability-Index/) Inglehart, R., C. Haerpfer, A. Moreno, C. Welzel, K. Kizilova, J. Diez-Medrano, M. Lagos, P. Norris, E. Ponarin & B. Puranen et al. (eds.). 2014. World Values Survey: All Rounds - Country-Pooled Datafile 1981-2014. Madrid: JD Systems Institute. Murdock, G.P., 1967. Ethnographic atlas: a summary. Ethnology, 6(2), pp.109-236. Murdock, G.P. and White, D.R., 1969. Standard cross-cultural sample. Ethnology, 8(4), pp.329-369. ESS Round 3: European Social Survey Round 3 Data (2006). Data file edition 3.7. NSD - Norwegian Centre for Research Data, Norway - Data Archive and distributor of ESS data for ESS ERIC. doi:10.21338/NSD-ESS3-2006.