Citizens of warmer countries are more competitive and poorer: Culture or chance?
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چکیده
Data from 43 countries were used to examine the negative association between ambient temperature and economic prosperity during the 1965±1994 period from a cross-cultural perspective. Surprisingly, the inhabitants' overall level of cultural competitiveness does not aect economic growth. However, positive temperature±competitiveness and negative competitiveness±wealth relations do account for the stable negative temperature±wealth association. An evolutionary explanation of the temperature±competitiveness±wealth chain of relations is proposed in terms of paternal investment theory. The additional inference from paternal investment theory that cultural masculinity ± male/female dierences in competitiveness ± also mediates between ambient temperature and economic wealth and growth, was not supported. Ó 2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved. PsycINFO classi®cation: 4070 JEL classi®cation: F0
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