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Title: High School Genetic Diversity and Later-life Student Outcomes: Micro-level Evidence from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study

Citation Type: Working Paper

Publication Year: 2017

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Abstract: A novel hypothesis posits that levels of genetic diversity in a population may partially explain variation in the development and success of countries. Our paper extends evidence on this novel question by subjecting the hypothesis to an alternative context that eliminates many alternative hypotheses by aggregating representative data to the high school level from a single state (Wisconsin) in 1957, when the population was composed nearly entirely of individuals of European ancestry. Using this sample of high school aggregations, we too find a strong effect of genetic diversity on socioeconomic outcomes. Additionally, we check an existing mechanism and propose a new potential mechanism of the results for innovation: personality traits associated with creativity and divergent thinking.

Url: http://www.nber.org/papers/w23520

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Authors: Cook, C, J; Fletcher, Jason, M

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Publication Number: 23520

Institution: NBER

Pages: 38

Publisher Location: Cambridge, MA

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Other, Poverty and Welfare, Race and Ethnicity

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