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immigrants import their economic destiny, to a large extent, from their ancestral homelands

history of peoples matters more than history of places

relationship between strong family values and political attitudes is about half the size of the relationship between education and those same political attitudes. To speak a bit informally, a sizable rise in a typical person’s education tends to turn that person against regulation by about 10 percentage points