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New PSE Policy brief on the epidemiological approach to comparative development
Published on December 19, 2024 – Updated on December 20, 2024
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on the December 19, 2024
New policy brief of the International Migration Economics Chair - Paris School of Economics
by Simone Bertoli, Melchior Clerc, Jordan Loper and Èric Roca Fernández
Is culture an attribute of places or of people? One way to address this question is to use migrants who move between places and see whether culture is persistent or malleable. This approach is called “epidemiological” in the economics literature and builds on first-, second-, and more-generations migrants, i.e., individuals with more or less recent foreign ancestries. The research project summarized in this policy brief points to a number of data and methodological challenges this literature is faced with.
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Bertoli, B., Clerc M., Loper J., and Fernández ER. Migration and the epidemiological approach: Time and self-selection into foreign ancestries matter. IZA Discussion Paper no. 17356. Bonn: Institute for the Study of Labor. Available at https://docs.iza.org/dp17356.pdf.