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The Empire Is Dead, Long Live the Empire! Long-Run Persistence of Trust and Corruption in the Bureaucracy

Becker, Sascha O.; Boeckh, Katrin; Hainz, Christa; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

countries, communities on both sides of the long-gone Habsburg border have been sharing common formal institutions for a century …

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Knocking on Heaven’s Door? Protestantism and Suicide

Becker, Sascha O.; Woessmann, Ludger - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

We model the effect of Protestant vs. Catholic denomination in an economic theory of suicide, accounting for differences in religious-community integration, views about man’s impact on God’s grace, and the possibility of confessing sins. We test the theory using a unique micro-regional...

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Not the Opium of the People: Income and Secularization in a Panel of Prussian Counties

Becker, Sascha O.; Woessmann, Ludger - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

The interplay between religion and the economy has occupied social scientists for long. We construct a unique panel of … doubt on causal interpretations of the religion- economy nexus in Prussian secularization. …

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Institutions Rule: The Primacy of Institutions Over Geography and Integration in Economic Development

Rodrik, Dani; Subramanian, Arvind; Trebbi, Francesco - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

We estimate the respective contributions of institutions, geography, and trade in determining income levels around the … world, using recently developed instruments for institutions and trade. Our results indicate that the quality of … institutions 'trumps' everything else. Once institutions are controlled for, measures of geography have at best weak direct effects …

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Institutions For High-Quality Growth: What They Are And How To Acquire Them

Rodrik, Dani - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

This paper opens with a discussion of the types of institutions that allow markets to perform adequately. While we can … identify in broad terms what these are, there is no unique mapping between markets and the non-market institutions that … institutions. A range of evidence indicates that participatory democracies enable higher-quality growth. …

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In Search of the Holy Grail: Policy Convergence, Experimentation and Economic Performance

Mukand, Sharun W.; Rodrik, Dani - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

We consider a model of policy choice in which appropriate policies depend on a country’s own circumstances, but the presence of a successful leader generates an informational externality and results in too little ‘policy experimentation’. Corrupt governments are reined in while honest...

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Does Parental Education Affect Fertility? Evidence from Pre-Demographic Transition Prussia

Becker, Sascha O.; Cinnirella, Francesco; Woessmann, Ludger - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

While women's employment opportunities, relative wages, and the child quantity-quality trade-off have been studied as factors underlying historical fertility limitation, the role of parental education has received little attention. We combine Prussian county data from three censuses--1816, 1849,...

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iPEHD – The ifo Prussian Economic History Database

Becker, Sascha O.; Cinnirella, Francesco; Hornung, Erik; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

as education, religion, fertility, and many others for Prussian economic development in the 19th century. The service of …

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Education Promoted Secularization

Becker, Sascha O.; Nagler, Markus; Woessmann, Ludger - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

Why did substantial parts of Europe abandon the institutionalized churches around 1900? Empirical studies using modern data mostly contradict the traditional view that education was a leading source of the seismic social phenomenon of secularization. We construct a unique panel dataset of...

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The 'Out of Africa' Hypothesis, Human Genetic Diversity, and Comparative Economic Development

Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

This research argues that deep-rooted factors, determined tens of thousands of years ago, had a significant effect on the course of economic development from the dawn of human civilization to the contemporary era. It advances and empirically establishes the hypothesis that, in the course of the...

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