TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Galor, Oded
AU  - Klemp, Marc
        TI  - Roots of Autocracy
        PY  - 2017/Jun/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 10818
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp10818
        AB  - Exploiting a novel geo-referenced data set of population diversity across ethnic groups, this research advances the hypothesis and empirically establishes that variation in population diversity across human societies, as determined in the course of the exodus of humans from Africa tens of thousands of years ago, contributed to the differential formation of pre-colonial autocratic institutions within ethnic groups and the emergence of autocratic institutions across countries. 
Diversity has amplified the importance of institutions in mitigating the adverse effects of non-cohesiveness on productivity, while contributing to the scope for domination, leading to the formation of institutions of the autocratic type.
        KW  - institutions
KW  - diversity
KW  - economic growth
KW  - autocracy
KW  - Out-of-Africa Hypothesis of Comparative Development
        ER  -