Critical Evaluation of Ancient Origins of the Global Variation in Economic Preferences

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10.2991/assehr.k.200312.071How to use a DOI?

Keywords

ancestral distances, risk preferences, time preferences, social preferences, genetic endowments, linguistic distances

Abstract

Risk, time, and social partialities show huge difference both cross and inside countries, this non-uniformity is also correspond to economic results at both individual and country’s aggregate levels. This essay is going to critically evaluate this paper in two sections and make some suggestions accordingly. The first section is about Research Methodology, which will be discussed in terms of Data Collection and Data Process. The second section is about Research results, dividing into three areas to discuss: across countries, within countries across populations of different ancestry, and across linguistic groups.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Jixuan Li
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/03/18
TI  - Critical Evaluation of Ancient Origins of the Global Variation in Economic Preferences
BT  - Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Social Science (ISSS 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 397
EP  - 401
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200312.071
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200312.071
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