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Geography, Institutions, and the Making of Comparative Development
Auer, Raphael - 2021
the historical determinants of institutions with the sizeable direct impact of geographic endowments on development …
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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 … doubt on causal interpretations of the religion-economy nexus in Prussian secularization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013086410
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Engineering Growth : Innovative Capacity and Development in the Americas
Maloney, William F.; Valencia Caicedo, Felipe - 2021
This paper offers the first systematic historical evidence on the role of a central actor in modern growth theory - the engineer. It collects cross-country and state level data on the labor share of engineers for the Americas, and county level data on engineering and patenting for the US during...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315467
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Was Weber Wrong? A Human Capital Theory of Protestant Economic History
Becker, Sascha O.; Woessmann, Ludger - 2021
Max Weber attributed the higher economic prosperity of Protestant regions to a Protestant work ethic. We provide an alternative theory, where Protestant economies prospered because instruction in reading the Bible generated the human capital crucial to economic prosperity. County-level data from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317061
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Market Integration As a Mechanism of Growth
Keller, Wolfgang - 2016
In what sense are institutions a deep determinant of growth? In this paper, we address this question by examining the relationship between city growth and institutional reform in 19th century Germany, when some cities experienced deep institutional reform as a result of French rule. Employing an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012980591
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Ancestry, Language and Culture
Spolaore, Enrico - 2015
We explore the interrelationships between various measures of cultural distance. We first discuss measures of genetic distance, used in the recent economics literature to capture the degree of relatedness between countries. We next describe several classes of measures of lin-guistic, religious,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013020583
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How Deep are the Roots of Economic Development?
Spolaore, Enrico - 2012
The empirical literature on economic growth and development has moved from the study of proximate determinants to the … account the ancestral composition of current populations. The evidence suggests that economic development is affected by … economic development, biologically (via genetic or epigenetic transmission) and culturally (via behavioral or symbolic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013105134
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Does Culture Cause Economic Development? A Reassessment of the Evidence from European Regions
Edwards, Jeremy - 2021
to support any conclusions about the effect of culture on economic development …This paper shows that Tabellini’s recent claim to have provided evidence that culture has a causal effect on economic … development is unjustified. Tabellini’s claim is based on an instrumental variables analysis in which two instruments are used to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315830
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From Mine to Coast : Transport Infrastructure and the Direction of Trade in Developing Countries
Bonfatti, Roberto - 2013
of colonialism for developing countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013083876
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European Trade, Colonialism and Human Capital Accumulation in Senegal, Gambia and Western Mali, 1770-1900
Cappelli, Gabriele - 2017
We trace the development of human capital in today's Senegal, Gambia, and Western Mali between 1770 and 1900. European … trade, slavery and early colonialism were linked to human capital formation, but this connection appears to have been … quickly than inner areas. This pattern was affected by French early colonialism and by the reaction of different West African …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012954576