Wheat
agriculture and family ties
Several recent contributions to the literature have
suggested that the strength of family ties is related to various economic and
social outcomes. This paper proposes and tests the hypothesis that the
agricultural legacy of a country matters for shaping the strength of its family
ties. Using data from the World Values Survey and the European Values Study,
the results show that societies with a legacy of cultivating wheat tend to have
weaker family ties. The estimations allow for alternative hypotheses which
propose that pathogen stress and climatic variation can potentially also give
rise to the formation of family ties. The results suggest that the suitability
of land for wheat production is the most influential factor in explaining the
variation in the strength of family ties across societies and countries.
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