Economic Consequences of Kinship: Evidence From U.S. Bans on Cousin Marriage

Close-kin marriage, by sustaining tightly knit family structures, may impede development. Arkadev Ghosh finds support for this hypothesis using U.S. state bans on cousin marriage. 

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