Similar Search Results

Inequality in Individual Mortality and Economic Conditions Earlier in Life

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Lindeboom, Maarten; López, Marta - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

We analyze the effect of being born in a recession on the mortality rate later in life in conjunction with social class. We use individual data records from Dutch registers of birth, marriage, and death certificates, covering the period 1815-2000, and we merge these with historical data on...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703315

Catch Me If You Can: Education and Catch-up in the Industrial Revolution

Becker, Sascha O.; Hornung, Erik; Woessmann, Ludger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

Existing evidence, mostly from British textile industries, rejects the importance of formal education for the Industrial Revolution. We provide new evidence from Prussia, a technological follower, where early-19th-century institutional reforms created the conditions to adopt the exogenously...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008574589

The Role of Marriage in the Causal Pathway from Economic Conditions Early in Life to Mortality

den Berg, Gerard J. van; Gupta, Sumedha - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

This paper analyzes the interplay between early-life conditions and marital status, as determinants of adult mortality. We use individual data from Dutch registers (years 1815-2000), combined with business cycle conditions in childhood as indicators of early-life conditions. The empirical...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008804583

iPEHD: The ifo Prussian Economic History Database

Becker, Sascha O.; Cinnirella, Francesco; Hornung, Erik; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper provides a documentation of the ifo Prussian Economic History Database (iPEHD), a county-level database covering a rich collection of variables for 19th-century Prussia. The Royal Prussian Statistical Office collected these data in several censuses over the years 1816-1901, with much...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011079234

Being Born Under Adverse Economic Conditions Leads to a Higher Cardiovascular Mortality Rate Later in Life: Evidence Based on Individuals Born at Different Stages of the Business C...

den Berg, Gerard J. van; Doblhammer-Reiter, Gabriele; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

We connect the recent medical and economic literatures on the long-run effects of early-life conditions, by analyzing the effects of economic conditions on the individual cardiovascular (CV) mortality rate later in life, using individual data records from the Danish Twin Registry covering births...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762085

The Short- and Long-Run Determinants of Less-Educated Immigration into U.S. States

Simpson, Nicole B.; Sparber, Chad - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

differences in (short-term) GDP fluctuations between origin countries and U.S. states, and perhaps to (long-term) trend GDP … differences as well. More specifically, short-run GDP fluctuations pull less-educated male immigrants into certain U.S. states …, whereas GDP trends push less-educated male immigrants out of their countries of origin. Effects for less-educated women are …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279271

Social Attitudes and Economic Development: An Epidemiological Approach

Cahuc, Pierre; Algan, Yann - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

In this paper we develop a new empirical approach to uncovering the impact of social attitudes on economic development. We first show that trust of second-generation Americans is significantly influenced by the country of origin of their forebears. In the spirit of the epidemiology literature,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703557

Social Organizations, Violence & Modern Growth

Greif, Avner; Iyigun, Murat - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Although social institutions permeate the world in which we live, they are all but absent from our analyses of economic growth and development. This paper argues the need to mitigate this omission by demonstrating the importance of social institutions for growth and development.

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010660254

Qualifying Religion: The Role of Plural Identities for Educational Production

Boppart, Timo; Falkinger, Josef; Grossmann, Volker; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

This paper examines the role of religious denomination for human capital formation. We employ a unique data set which covers, inter alia, information on numerous measures of school inputs in 169 Swiss districts for the years 1871/72, 1881/82 and 1894/95, marks from pedagogical examinations of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703130

Lessons from the Ottoman Harem (On Ethnicity, Religion and War)

Iyigun, Murat - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

The Ottoman Empire had a profound impact in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa at the apogee of its power, covering the era between 1453 C. E. and 1699 C. E. In this paper, I exploit the empire’s unique culture and institutions to examine the roles of ethnicity and religion in conflict...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763535

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Next
Last