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Consumption, Social Capital, and the ‘Industrious Revolution’ in Early Modern Germany

Ogilvie, S. - Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge - 2009

This paper uses evidence from German-speaking central Europe to address open questions about the Consumer and Industrious Revolutions. Did they happen outside the early-developing, North Atlantic economies? Were they shaped by the “social capital” of traditional institutions? How were they...

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Community Characteristics and Demographic Development: Three Württemberg Communities, 1558 - 1914

Ogilvie, S.; Küpker, M.; Maegraith, J. - Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge - 2009

Demographic behaviour is influenced not just by attributes of individuals but also by characteristics of the communities in which those individuals live. A project on ‘Economy, Gender, and Social Capital in the German Demographic Transition’ is analyzing the longterm determinants of...

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With God We Trust: Religion, Trust and Cooperation in Large-Scale Societies

Gagnon, Julien - Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge - 2014

, provided that players' endogenous trust is high enough. The model the signalling theory of religion. Finally, the model enables …

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Religion and Human Capital in Ghana

Blunch, N. - Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge - 2007

This paper examines the religion-human capital link, examining a recent household survey for Ghana. Insights from the … Christianity, since Islam, perhaps surprisingly, may be clustered together with Traditional/Animist religion within the group of …, while at the same yielding higher associations in the religion-human capital relations ship. In turn, this indicates that …

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‘Religion and Fertility in India: The role of son preference and daughter aversion’

Borooah, V.; Iyer, S. - Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge - 2004

This paper brings together the notion of ‘son preference’ and the complementary concept of ‘daughter aversion’ to provide an explanation for larger Muslim, relative to Hindu, families in India. Just as sons bring ‘benefits’ to their parents, daughters impose ‘costs’ and...

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British Episodic Economic Growth 1850-1938

Solomou, S.; Ristuccia, C. A. - Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge - 2002

This paper argues that non-random measurement errors in the estimates of British Gross Domestic Product makes the compromise estimate a biased indicator of medium-term economic growth. Since the compromise estimate of GDP has been widely accepted and used to describe macroeconomic trends in the...

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The Retrenchment Hypothesis and the Extension of the Franchise in England and Wales

Aidt, T.S.; Daunton, M.; Dutta, J. - Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge - 2008

Does local democracy help or hinder the solution of collective action problems? We study this question in the context of public spending on health-related urban amenities in a panel of 75 municipal boroughs in England and Wales in 1868, 1871 and 1886. We .nd evidence of a U-shaped relationship...

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The Cutting Edge of Modernity: Machine Tools in the United States and Germany 1930-1945

Ristuccia, C.A.; Tooze, J.A. - Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge - 2003

This paper aims to examine the difference between US and European manufacturing before and during the World War II, focusing on the key technology in the metal-working sector: machine tools. We present a new data set covering the installed capacity of metal-working tools in the United States and...

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Divine Competition: Religious Organisations and Service Provision in India

Iyer, Sriya; Velu, Chander; Weeks, Melvyn - Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge - 2014

dataon the economics of religion, collected by us between 2006 and 2010 from 568 Hindu, Muslim, Christian, Sikh and Jain …

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Divine Innovation: Religion and Service Provision by Religious Organizations in India

Iyer, S.; Velu, C.; Xue, J.; Chakravarty, T. - Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge - 2011

adherents. In order to test our propositions, we present unique primary survey data on the economics of religion that we have … religious and non-religious services, but that there are significant variations by religion. We also provide quantitative …

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