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On the Importance of African Traditional Religion for Economic Behavior
Butinda, Lewis Dunia; Lameke, Aimable Amani; Nunn, Nathan; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Within the field of economics, despite being widespread, African traditional religions tend to be perceived as unimportant and ignored when studying economic decision-making. This study tests whether this presumption is correct. Using daily data on business decisions and performance of beer...
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Rebel Governance and Development : The Persistent Effects of Guerrillas in El Salvador
Bandiera, Antonella; Dinarte-Diaz, Lelys; Jimenez, Juan … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
displaced state authorities and promoted the creation of self-governing institutions that embodied local values and openly … state. Our results suggest that community institutions in guerrilla-controlled areas led to enduring land fragmentation and … disengagement with the government. We argue that when non-state actors develop alternative governance institutions, they can lead to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013388844
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The Economics of Women's Rights
Tertilt, Michele; Doepke, Matthias; Montenbruck, Laura; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Two centuries ago, in most countries around the world, women were unable to vote, had no say over their own children or property, and could not obtain a divorce. Women have gradually gained rights in many areas of life, and this legal expansion has been closely intertwined with economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013462666
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Zero-Sum Thinking, the Evolution of Effort-Suppressing Beliefs, and Economic Development
Carvalho, Jean-Paul; Bergeron, Augustin; Henrich, Joseph; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We study the evolution of belief systems that suppress productive effort. These include concerns about the envy of others, beliefs in the importance of luck for success, disdain for competitive effort, and traditional beliefs in witchcraft. We show that such demotivating beliefs can evolve when...
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Organizing a Kingdom
Angelucci, Charles; Meraglia, Simone; Voigtländer, Nico - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
empower different elites and emphasize the interaction between local and nationwide institutions. We show that rising economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014576570
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Dissecting the Sinews of Power : International Trade and the Rise of Britain's Fiscal-Military State, 1689-1823
Dal Bó, Ernesto; Hutková, Karolina; Leucht, Lukas; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We evaluate the role of taxes on trade in the development of imperial Britain's fiscal-military state. Influential work, e.g., Brewer's (1989) "Sinews of Power," attributed increased fiscal capacity to the taxation of domestic, rather than traded, goods: excise revenues, coarsely associated with...
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Convergent Evolution Toward the Joint-Stock Company
Le Bris, David; Goetzmann, William N.; Pouget, Sébastien - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
underlying the emergence of the joint-stock company, and for the debate regarding the link between institutions and economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014436952
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The Topography of Nations
Allen, Treb - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
How does the interplay of geography and political-economic forces affect the shape of nations? This paper presents a quantitative framework for characterizing the equilibrium evolution of national boundaries in a world with a rich geography. The framework delivers simple equilibrium conditions...
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Democracy, Capitalism, and Equality : The Importance of Impersonal Rules
Lamoreaux, Naomi R.; Wallis, John Joseph - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We usually consider it progress when a country begins to shift from an autocratic to a democratic form of government. However, the introduction of elections and other early trappings of democracy often has the perverse effect of exacerbating political instability. It also increases the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015072872
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Dishonest Behavior : Sin Big or Go Home
Aimone, Jason A. - 2019
Economic agents face many different types of economic incentives when making financial and moral decisions. We provide experimental data from a population that uniquely responds to incentives to lie compared to previously studied populations. We conduct a standard 6-sided die rolling lying study...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479697