Replication and additional analysis based of a selection econometric papers studying cultural persistence.

The papers studied include:

• The long term effects of Africa’s slave trades (Nunn, 2008)
• The slave trade and the origins of mistrust in Africa (Nunn & Wantchekon, 2011)
• On the Origins of Gender Roles: Women and the Plough (Alesina et al., 2013)
• The Church, intensive kinship, and global psychological variation (Schulz et al., 2019)
• Persecution perpetuated: The Medieval Origins of Anti-Semitic Nazi Violence (Voigtländer & Voth, 2012)
• Trade, Institutions, and Ethnic Tolerance: Evidence from South Asia (JHA, 2013)
• Long-term persistence (Guiso et al., 2016)

The folder scripts contains scripts that when executed will print on the console the results of an analysis.
Each script has hard-coded parameters that can be modified to analyse different exposures, outcomes and controls.

The file scripts/utils.R contains some utility functions. The file scripts/meta.R contains the code to conduct a meta analysys of the papers. The folder datasets contains the datasets used for the analysis.