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The Transmission of Democracy: From the Village to the Nation-State

Giuliano, Paola; Nunn, Nathan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

We provide evidence that a history of democracy at the local level is associated with contemporary democracy at the … national level. Auxiliary estimates show that a tradition of local democracy is also associated with attitudes that favor … democracy, with better quality institutions, and higher level of economic development. …

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Comparing Real Wage Rates

Ashenfelter, Orley - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

A real wage rate is a nominal wage rate divided by the price of a good and is a transparent measure of how much of the good an hour of work buys. It provides an important indicator of the living standards of workers, and also of the productivity of workers. In this paper I set out the conceptual...

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The Biocultural Origins of Human Capital Formation

Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This research explores the biocultural origins of human capital formation. It presents the first evidence that moderate fecundity and thus predisposition towards investment in child quality was conducive for long-run reproductive success within the human species. Using an extensive genealogical...

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Two Centuries of International Migration

Ferrie, Joseph; Hatton, Timothy J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This is a draft chapter for B. R. Chiswick and P. W. Miller (eds.) Handbook on the Economics of International Migration. It provides an overview of trends and developments in international migration since the industrial revolution. We focus principally on long-distance migration to rich...

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The Economics and Politics of Women's Rights

Doepke, Matthias; Tertilt, Michèle; Voena, Alessandra - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

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 to developed countries. Historically, even in countries that are now rich women had few rights before economic development took...

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The "Out of Africa" Hypothesis, Human Genetic Diversity, and Comparative Economic Development

Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This research argues that deep-rooted factors, determined tens of thousands of years ago, had a significant effect on the course of economic development from the dawn of human civilization to the contemporary era. It advances and empirically establishes the hypothesis that in the course of the...

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Ora et non Labora? A Test of the Impact of Religion on Female Labor Supply

Pastore, Francesco; Tenaglia, Simona - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This paper examines the influence of religion on female participation to the labor market using data relative to women aged between 18 and 60 years in 47 European countries drawn from the European Values Study (EVS). We investigate the determinants of the probability of being employed rather...

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Data Issues and Databases Used in Analysis of Growth, Poverty and Economic Inequality

Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

This paper focuses on the importance data issues to the analysis of growth, poverty and economic inequality. We introduce a number of major databases frequently used in applied research on growth, poverty and global and international inequality. A discussion of data quality, data consistency,...

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Modern Economic Growth and Quality of Life: Cross Sectional and Time Series Evidence

Easterlin, Richard A.; Angelescu, Laura - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

To what extent are improvements in quality of life (material living levels, health, education, political and civil rights, happiness, and the like) associated with economic growth? International comparisons of quality of life (QoL) conditions almost always point to a strong positive association...

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"Every Catholic Child in a Catholic School": Historical Resistance to State Schooling, Contemporary Private Competition, and Student Achievement across Countries

West, Martin R.; Woessmann, Ludger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

Nineteenth-Century Catholic doctrine strongly opposed state schooling. We show that countries with larger shares of Catholics in 1900 (but without a Catholic state religion) tend to have larger shares of privately operated schools even today. We use this historical pattern as a natural...

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