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Married to Intolerance: Attitudes toward Intermarriage in Germany, 1900-2006
Voigtländer, Nico; Voth, Hans-Joachim - In: American Economic Review 103 (2013) 3, pp. 79-85
We analyze under what conditions intermarriage can be used as an indicator of tolerance, and whether such tolerant attitudes persisted in Germany during the twentieth century. We find strong evidence for the persistence of tolerant attitudes towards intermarriage with Jews. At the same time, our...
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Coercive Contract Enforcement: Law and the Labor Market in Nineteenth Century Industrial Britain
Naidu, Suresh; Yuchtman, Noam - In: American Economic Review 103 (2013) 1, pp. 107-44
British Master and Servant law made employee contract breach a criminal offense until 1875. We develop a contracting model generating equilibrium contract breach and prosecutions, then exploit exogenous changes in output prices to examine the effects of labor demand shocks on prosecutions....
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Not the Opium of the People: Income and Secularization in a Panel of Prussian Counties
Becker, Sascha O.; Woessmann, Ludger - In: American Economic Review 103 (2013) 3, pp. 539-44
The interplay between religion and the economy has long occupied social scientists. We construct a unique panel of income and Protestant church attendance using 175 Prussian counties, presented in six waves from 1886 to 1911. The data reveal a marked decline in church attendance coinciding with...
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The Economics of Climate Change
Stern, Nicholas - In: American Economic Review 98 (2008) 2, pp. 1-37
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Segregation, Rent Control, and Riots: The Economics of Religious Conflict in an Indian City
Field, Erica; Levinson, Matthew; Pande, Rohini; … - In: American Economic Review 98 (2008) 2, pp. 505-10
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Computer Mediated Transactions
Varian, Hal R. - In: American Economic Review 100 (2010) 2, pp. 1-10
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Cycles of Conflict: An Economic Model
Acemoglu, Daron; Wolitzky, Alexander - In: American Economic Review 104 (2014) 4, pp. 1350-67
We propose a model of cycles of conflict and distrust. Overlapping generations of agents from two groups sequentially … actions. Good actions may be misperceived as bad and information about past actions is limited. Conflict spirals start as a …
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On the Salience of Ethnic Conflict
Esteban, Joan; Ray, Debraj - In: American Economic Review 98 (2008) 5, pp. 2185-2202
A classical theme in social analysis views economic class divisions as the main cause of social conflict. Yet many, if … highlights the perverse synergy of economic inequality within ethnic groups, and its role in the salience of ethnic conflict. In … class, conflict may be focal, and precisely in the presence of economic inequality. (JEL D72, D74) …
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The Administrative Foundations of Self-Enforcing Constitutions
Lara, Yadira Gonzalez de; Greif, Avner; Jha, Saumitra - In: American Economic Review 98 (2008) 2, pp. 105-09
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Immigration and the Diffusion of Technology: The Huguenot Diaspora in Prussia
Hornung, Erik - In: American Economic Review 104 (2014) 1, pp. 84-122
This paper analyzes long-term effects of skilled-worker immigration on productivity for the Huguenot migration to Prussia. In 1685, religiously persecuted French Huguenots settled in Brandenburg- Prussia and compensated for population losses due to plagues during the Thirty Years' War. We...
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