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Eichengreen, Barry; Saka, Orkun; Aksoy, Cevat Giray - 2021

with the (in)effectiveness of a government's healthcare-related responses to past epidemics. We document this mechanism …

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Landownership concentration and the expansion of education

Cinnirella, Francesco; Hornung, Erik - 2011

This paper studies the effect of landownership concentration on school enrollment for nineteenth-century Prussia. Prussia is an interesting laboratory given its decentralized educational system and the presence of heterogeneous agricultural institutions. We find that landownership concentration,...

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Nation building : the role of central spending in education

Cinnirella, Francesco; Schüler, Ruth M. - 2016

It is generally argued that, in the context of Imperial Germany, public primary education was used to form "loyal citizens" and to build a nation. In this paper we analyze to what extent central spending on primary education affected participation at general elections and votes for...

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iPEHD : the ifo Prussian Economic History Database

Becker, Sascha O.; Cinnirella, Francesco; Hornung, Erik; … - 2012

This paper provides a documentation of the ifo Prussian Economic History Database (iPEHD), a county-level database covering a rich collection of variables for 19th-century Prussia. The Royal Prussian Statistical Office collected these data in several censuses over the years 1816-1901, with much...

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Islam and human capital in historical Spain

Cinnirella, Francesco; Naghavi, Alireza; Prarolo, Giovanni - 2020

local self-government. This translated into lower levels of human capital for regions longer under Muslim rule. Indeed …

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Religious tolerance as engine of innovation

Cinnirella, Francesco; Streb, Jochen - 2017

We argue that, for a given level of scientific knowledge, tolerance and diversity are conducive to technological creativity and innovation. In particular, we show that variations in innovation within Prussia during the second industrial revolution can be ascribed to differences in religious...

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Capital-skill complementarity and the emergence of labor emancipation

Ashraf, Quamrul H.; Cinnirella, Francesco; Galor, Oded; … - 2017

This paper advances a novel hypothesis regarding the historical roots of labor emancipation. It argues that the decline of coercive labor institutions in the industrial phase of development has been an inevitable by-product of the intensification of capital-skill complementarity in the...

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Bringing the Copenhagen global climate change negotiations to conclusion

Whalley, John (contributor); Walsh, Sean (contributor) - 2008

(China, India, Russia, Brazil) on the other. -- Climate change ; global negotiation …

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Trade retaliation in a monetary-trade model

Whalley, John; Yu, Jun; Zhang, Shunming - 2009

. We calibrate such a model to China’s trade with the rest of the world and explore two country tariff games using 2005 …

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Chinese experience with global G3 standard-setting

Whalley, John; Zhou, Weimin; An, Xiaopeng - 2009

China's growth strategy as set out in the 11th 5-year plan in 2005 called for upgrading of product quality, the … with this policy, China has been involved in recent years with the development of a Chinese standard in third generation (3 … experience raises issues for China’s future development strategy based on product and process upgrading in manufacturing. We …

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