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Dube, Oeindrila - 2017

Are states led by women less prone to conflict than states led by men? We answer this question by examining the effect of female rule on war among European polities over the 15th-20th centuries. We utilize gender of the first born and presence of a female sibling among previous monarchs as...

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The Top 1 Percent in International and Historical Perspective

Alvaredo, Facundo - 2013

U-shaped path over time, particularly in Europe, where inherited wealth is, in Europe if not in the United States …

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The Consequences of Radical Reform : The French Revolution

Acemoglu, Daron; Cantoni, Davide; Robinson, James A.; … - 2009

the 1790s and later under Napoleon invaded and controlled large parts of Europe. Together with invasion came various …

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Happiness Adaptation to Income beyond "Basic Needs"

Tella, Rafael Di - 2008

We test for whether, once "basic needs" are satisfied, there is happiness adaptation to further gains in income using three data sets. Individual German Panel Data from 1985-2000, and data on the well-being of over 600,000 people in a panel of European countries from 1975-2002, shows different...

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History’s Masters : The Effect of European Monarchs on State Performance

Ottinger, Sebastian - 2020

, independent of their ability, and ii) the wide-spread inbreeding among the ruling dynasties of Europe led to quasi …

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Innovativity : A Comparison Across Seven European Countries

Mohnen, Pierre - 2006

This paper proposes a framework to account for innovation similar to the usual accounting framework in production analysis and a measure of innovativity comparable to that of total factor productivity. This innovation accounting framework is illustrated using micro-aggregated firm data from the...

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The Scots may be Brave but They are Neither Healthy Nor Happy

Bell, David - 2006

worse than the rest of Europe. Deaths from chronic liver disease and lung cancer are particularly prevalent in Scotland. The …

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Cross-Country Inequality Trends

Acemoglu, Daron - 2002

much less, in (continental) Europe over the same time period. I review the two most popular explanations for these … differential trends: that relative supply of skills increased faster in Europe, and that European labor market institutions … where labor market institutions creating wage compression in Europe also encourage more investment in technologies …

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Widows' Time, Time Stress and Happiness : Adjusting to Loss

Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Myck, Michał; Oczkowska, Monika - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

By age 77 a plurality of women in wealthy Western societies are widows. Comparing older (aged 70+) married women to widows in the American Time Use Survey 2003-18 and linking the data to the Current Population Survey allow inferring the short- and longer-term effects of an arguably exogenous...

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Organizing a Kingdom

Angelucci, Charles; Meraglia, Simone; Voigtländer, Nico - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

European parliaments--a blueprint for Western Europe's institutional framework that promoted state-formation and economic …

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