عنوان

Weight Matrices for Cultural Proximity:

شماره

LA13v3x5xw

عنوان اصلي

Weight Matrices for Cultural Proximity:

نام عام مواد

[Article]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Eff, E. Anthon

عنوان اصلي به قلم نويسنده ديگر

Deriving Weights from a Language Phylogeny

متن يادداشت

Galton's Problem is one of identifying functional relationships in a set of observations where the observations may be related through borrowing or descent. The problem has long been recognized in the fields of anthropology and cross-cultural research, but has been neglected in economics, even in cases where it is likely to be most acute, such as in regression models where each observation is a nation. The appropriate treatment for Galton's Problem was developed in the 1980s by Malcolm M. Dow, Douglas R. White, and Michael L. Burton. Their solution is to estimate spatial models, where weight matrices for physical distance control for relationships of borrowing, and weight matrices for linguistic similarity control for relationships of descent. This paper documents a method for estimating a weight matrix based on language phylogenetic relationships. The method is applied to the 186 cultures of the Standard Cross-Cultural Sample, and applied to a set of 216 nations. The resulting weight matrices are made available for any researchers wishing to control for Galton's Problem.

تاريخ نشر

2008

عنوان

UC Irvine

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y