Exploring Development Economics: Insights from the Paper 📊

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This coursework explores the influence of ancestral norms in economics, focusing on patrilocal and matrilocal practices and their impact on gender inequality and resource distribution. Using Ghana and Malawi as ethnographic contexts, it analyzes resource-sharing frameworks with cultural data from the Ethnographic Atlas. The study reveals disparities based on cultural norms, consistent across methodologies and highlighting age-related trends. Key contributions include quantifying these...