covering a rich collection of variables for 19th-century Prussia. The Royal Prussian Statistical Office collected these data in … as education, religion, fertility, and many others for Prussian economic development in the 19th century. The service of …

structures that gives the policymaker additional bargaining power against lobbies. Thus, when compared to decentralization …, centralization reduces capture, and is more likely to be welfare enhancing in the presence of information asymmetries. Then, we apply …

We investigate the historical determinants of the education gender gap in Italy in the late nineteenth century … of transmission was the larger provision of education for girls in commercial centers. …

We investigate the determinants of the education gender gap in Italy in historical perspective with a focus on the …, we find that over the 1861-1901 period family structure is a driver of the education gender gap, with a higher female to …

account (covering education and training), and a health account (covering insurance against sickness and disability). Unlike …, cushioning people against economic risk, ensuring efficient provision of health and education services, providing social safety …

private sector and the support for decentralization. Since political support to centralization evolves over time, driven …We study the dynamic support for fiscal decentralization in a political agency model from the perspective of a region …. We show that corruption opportunities are lower under centralization at each period of time. However, centralization …

data mostly contradict the traditional view that education was a leading source of the seismic social phenomenon of … fixed effects account for time-invariant unobserved heterogeneity, education – but not income or urbanization – is …