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The Great Divergence : A Network Approach

Lindner, Ines - 2016

knowledge throughout the world explains a period of increasing world inequality after the take-off of the forerunners of the … industrial revolution, followed by decreasing relative inequality. Knowledge diffusion through a Small World network explains the … individual countries in the course of world development …

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Institutions and Economic Growth in Historical Perspective : Part 2

Ogilvie, Sheilagh - 2014

This is Part 2 of a two-part paper which surveys the historical evidence on the role of institutions in economic growth. The paper provides a critical scrutiny of a number of stylized facts widely accepted in the growth literature. It shows that private-order institutions have not historically...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013051272

Institutions and Economic Growth in Historical Perspective : Part 1

Ogilvie, Sheilagh - 2014

This is Part 1 of a two-part paper which surveys the historical evidence on the role of institutions in economic growth. The paper provides a critical scrutiny of a number of stylized facts widely accepted in the growth literature. It shows that private-order institutions have not historically...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013051273

Brain Drain in the Age of Mass Migration : Does Relative Inequality Explain Migrant Selectivity?

Stolz, Yvonne; Baten, Joerg - 2021

Brain drain is a core economic policy problem for many developing countries today. Does relative inequality in source and destination countries influence the brain-drain phenomenon? We explore human capital selectivity during the period 1820-1909.We apply age heaping techniques to measure human...

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Overcoming History through International Organizations – Historical Roots of EU Support and Euroscepticism

Gehring, Kai - 2019

There is little causal evidence about deep-rooted sources of support for shifting power from nation-states to international organizations. Focusing on the European Union, this paper develops the hypothesis that citizens appreciate the role of international organizations in constraining member...

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

Becker, Sascha O. - 2013

The interplay between religion and the economy has occupied social scientists for long. We construct a unique panel of income and Protestant church attendance for six waves of up to 175 Prussian counties spanning 1886-1911. The data reveal a marked decline in church attendance coinciding with...

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Overvalued : Swedish Monetary Policy in the 1930s

Rathke, Alexander - 2013

enabling the country to benefit quickly from the eventual recovery of world demand …

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The Impact of City Contracting Set-Asides on Black Self-Employment and Employment

Chatterji, Aaron - 2014

In the 1980s, many U.S. cities initiated programs reserving a proportion of government contracts for minority-owned businesses. The staggered introduction of these set-aside programs is used to estimate their impacts on the self-employment and employment rates of African-American men. Black...

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Medieval Universities, Legal Institutions, and the Commercial Revolution

Cantoni, Davide - 2013

We present new data documenting medieval Europe's “Commercial Revolution” using information on the establishment of markets in Germany. We use these data to test whether medieval universities played a causal role in expanding economic activity, examining the foundation of Germany's first...

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Economic Nationalism and Economic Integration : The Austro-Hungarian Empire in the Late Nineteenth Century

Schulze, Max-Stephan - 2009

data about a quarter of a century or so before the outbreak of the First World War …

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