%0 Report
        %A Depetris-Chauvin, Emilio
%A Özak, Ömer
        %T The Origins of the Division of Labor in Pre-Modern Times
        %D 2018
        %8 2018 May
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 11554
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp11554
        %X This research explores the historical roots of the division of labor in pre-modern societies. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that intra-ethnic diversity had a positive effect on the division of labor across ethnicities in the pre-modern era. Exploiting a variety of identification strategies and a novel ethnic level dataset combining geocoded ethnographic, linguistic and genetic data, it establishes that higher levels of intra-ethnic diversity were conducive to economic specialization in the pre-modern era. The findings are robust to a host of geographical, institutional, cultural and historical confounders, and suggest that variation in intra-ethnic diversity is the main predictor of the division of labor in pre-modern times.
        %K population diversity
%K cultural diversity
%K intra-ethnic diversity
%K economic specialization
%K division of labor
%K comparative development
%K genetic diversity
%K linguistic diversity