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Culture, spatial diffusion of ideas and their long-lasting imprints : evidence from Froebel's kindergarten movement
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Falck, Oliver - 2014 - This version: March 2014
We document the spatial diffusion of Friedrich Froebel's radical invention of kindergartens in 19th-century Germany. The first kindergarten was founded at Froebel's birthplace. Early spatial diffusion can be explained by cultural proximity, measured by historical dialect similarity, to Froebel's...
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A gift is not always a gift : gift exchange in a voucher experiment
Becker, Sascha O.; Messer, Dolores; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2011
Different from traditional gift exchange experiments, we study a field experiment where a random subsample of participants in the Swiss Labor Force Survey was sent vouchers to be used in adult training courses. Importantly for our purposes, actual voucher redemption can be traced. This gives the...
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Approval of equal rights and gender differences in well-being
Lalive, Rafael; Stutzer, Alois - 2004
Women earn less than men but are not less satisfied with life. This paper argues that norms on the appropriate pay for women compared to men explain these findings. We take citizens' approval of an equal rights amendment to the Swiss constitution as a proxy for the norm that "women and men shall...
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Pro-social behavior, reciprocity or both?
Frey, Bruno S.; Meier, Stephan - 2002
Empirical evidence is provided for the importance of non-reciprocal pro-social behavior of individuals in an anonymous, n-person pure public good setting. A unique panel data set of 136,000 observations is matched with an extensive survey. Even under anonymous conditions, a large number of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410448
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How culture shapes choices related to fertility and mortality : causal evidence at the swiss language border
Faessler, Lisa; Lalive, Rafael; Efferson, Charles - 2023
meet this challenge, we exploit a cultural border dividing Switzerland in ways that are independent of institutional …
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The decline in the nutritional status of the U.S. antebellum population at the onset of modern economic growth
A'Hearn, Brian; Komlos, John - 2015
proportion of shorter men to volunteer for military service thereby driving down the mean height of soldiers even if the height … declined. A thorough analysis of the Union Army height data, considering recruiting periods as short as 90 days during which … height of soldiers beginning with the birth cohorts of the early 1830s is representative of the trend in the physical stature …
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Institutions and economic growth in historical perspective : part 2
Ogilvie, Sheilagh C.; Carus, A. W. - 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...
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Institutions and economic growth in historical perspective : part 1
Ogilvie, Sheilagh C.; Carus, A. W. - 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/10010371916
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Pork, infrastructure and growth : evidence from the Italian railway expansion
Bonfatti, Roberto; Facchini, Giovanni; Tarasov, Alexander; … - 2021
This paper studies the role played by politics in shaping the Italian railway network, and its impact on long-run growth patterns. Examining a large state-planned railway expansion that took place during the second half of the 19th century in a recently unified country, we first study how both...
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The employment effect of inward FDI in China : what do we learn from the history?
Wang, Hao; Ji, Yuemei; Luo, Qi - 2020 - This version 19 June 2020
This study investigates the long-term influence of colonial legacy on the nexus between inward foreign direct investment (FDI) and labor market. We construct a panel dataset containing 285 Chinese cities 2011 to 2017 along with detailed information about Chinese modern history during 1842-1955)....
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