Appendix for ‘Folklore’

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Appendix for ‘Folklore’

This Appendix consists of the following sections. In the first part, we provide a brief overview of the history of folklore and place Berezkin’s catalogue in the context of other works in comparative mythology. Section 2 illustrates the construction of a motif in a given oral tradition. In section 3, we present additional robustness checks on the relationship between folklore and the natural environment. In section 4 we discuss the use of machine learning techniques in the context of folklore and present results implementing shrinkage methods to obtain keywords that predict current beliefs and attitudes across countries, as reflected in the Global Preference Survey (GPS) dataset. In the last section, we provide details on the use of MTurks for motif classification.

Appendix to: Stelios Michalopoulos Melanie Meng Xue, Folklore, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 136, Issue 4, November 2021, Pages 1993–2046 https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjab003