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Marriage Matching over Five Centuries in China

Shiue, Carol H.; Keller, Wolfgang - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

In the marriage market, families make investments on behalf of their young so that they are able to form a household … with their preferred partner. We analyze marriage markets in a central region of China between about 1300 and 1850 through … the lens of a model of marriage matching and intergenerational transmission of inequality. For both female and male …

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The Economics and Politics of Women's Rights

Doepke, Matthias; Tertilt, Michèle; Voena, Alessandra - In: Annual Review of Economics 4 (2012) 1, pp. 339-372

Women's rights and economic development are highly correlated. Today, the discrepancy between the legal rights of women and men is much larger in developing compared with developed countries. Historically, even in countries that are now rich, women had few rights before economic development took...

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Traditional Institutions in Modern Times : Dowries as Pensions When Sons Migrate

Bau, Natalie; Khanna, Gaurav; Low, Corinne; Voena, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

increasing the liquidity available to young men after marriage. We hypothesize that one cost of migration is the disruption of …

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Lifestyles of the rich and polygynous in Cote d’Ivoire

Gould, Eric D.; Moav, Omer; Simhon, Avi - In: Economics Letters 115 (2012) 3, pp. 404-407

This paper investigates whether the sources of income, not just the levels, determine whether an individual is monogamous. Our results support the idea that polygyny stunts development by allowing wealthy men to acquire wives rather than investing in child quality.

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Good, Bad, and Ugly Colonial Activities: Do They Matter for Economic Development?

Bruhn, Miriam; Gallego, Francisco A. - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics 94 (2012) 2, pp. 433-461

Levels of development vary widely within countries in the Americas. We argue that part of this variation has its roots in the colonial era, when colonizers engaged in different economic activities in different regions of a country. We present evidence consistent with the view that “bad”...

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The Nature of Conflict

Galor, Oded; Arbatli, Cemal Eren; Ashraf, Quamrul H. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

This research establishes that the emergence, prevalence, recurrence, and severity of intrastate conflicts in the modern era reflect the long shadow of prehistory. Exploiting variations across national populations, it demonstrates that genetic diversity, as determined predominantly during the...

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The Democratic Transition

Murtin, Fabrice; Wacziarg, Romain - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

Over the last two centuries, many countries experienced regime transitions toward democracy. We document this democratic transition over a long time horizon. We use historical time series of income, education and democracy levels from 1870 to 2000 to explore the economic factors associated with...

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Chapter 1. Culture, Entrepreneurship, and Growth

Doepke, Matthias; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - 2014

We discuss the two-way link between culture and economic growth. We present a model of endogenous technical change where growth is driven by the innovative activity of entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurship is risky and requires investments that affect the steepness of the lifetime consumption profile....

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Women's Liberation: What's in It for Men?

Doepke, Matthias; Tertilt, Michele - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

The nineteenth century witnessed dramatic improvements in the legal rights of married women. Given that these changes took place long before women gained the right to vote, they amounted to a voluntary renouncement of power by men. In this paper, we investigate men's incentives for sharing power...

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Persistence of Fortune: Accounting for Population Movements, There Was No Post-Columbian Reversal

Chanda, Areendam; Cook, C. Justin; Putterman, Louis - In: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics 6 (2014) 3, pp. 1-28

Using data on place of origin of today's country populations and the indicators of level of development in 1500 used by Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson (2002), we confirm a reversal of fortune for colonized countries as territories, but find persistence of fortune for people and their...

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