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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 …
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Culture, institutions and policy
Persson, Torsten; Tabellini, Guido Enrico - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012300553
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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...
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African institutions under colonial rule
Bolt, Jutta; Gardner, Leigh - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012210004
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Measuring the Tolerance of the State : Theory and Application to Protest
Andirin, Veli; Neggers, Yusuf; Shadmehr, Mehdi; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We develop a measure of a regime's tolerance for an action by its citizens. We ground our measure in an economic model and apply it to the setting of political protest. In the model, a regime anticipating a protest can take a costly action to repress it. We define the regime's tolerance as the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013334386
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Equilibrium Fictions : A Cognitive Approach to Societal Rigidity
Hoff, Karla - 2017
This paper assesses the role of ideas in economic change, combining economic and historical analysis with insights from psychology, sociology and anthropology. Belief systems shape the system of categories ( "pre-confirmatory bias" ) and perceptions (confirmatory bias), and are themselves...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976669
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Equilibrium Fictions : A Cognitive Approach to Societal Rigidity
Hoff, Karla - 2010
This paper assesses the role of ideas in economic change, combining economic and historical analysis with insights from psychology, sociology and anthropology. Belief systems shape the system of categories ("pre-confirmatory bias") and perceptions (confirmatory bias), and are themselves...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462860
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Devotion and development : religiosity, education, and economic progress in 19th-century france
Squicciarini, Mara P. - 2019
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Devotion and development : religiosity, education, and economic progress in 19th-century France
Squicciarini, Mara P. - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012195468
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Culture, institutions & the long divergence
Bisin, Alberto; Rubin, Jared; Seror, Avner; Verdier, Thierry - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012439267