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Devotion and development : religiosity, education, and economic progress in 19th-century France
Squicciarini, Mara P. - 2019 - This version: 14th July 2019
This paper uses a historical setting to study when religion can be a barrier to the diffusion of knowledge and economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012039060
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Minorities, human capital and long-rund development : persistence of Armenian and Greek influence in Turkey
Arbatli, Cemal Eren; Gokmen, Gunes - 2016
We study the long-term economic legacy of highly-skilled minorities a century after their wholesale expulsion. Using mass expulsions of Armenian and Greek communities of the Ottoman Empire in the early 20th century as a unique natural experiment of history, we show that districts with greater...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011581278
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Culture, institutions & the long divergence
Bisin, Alberto; Rubin, Jared; Seror, Avner; Verdier, Thierry - 2021
Recent theories of the Long Divergence between Middle Eastern and Western European economies focus on Middle Eastern (over-)reliance on religious legitimacy, use of slave soldiers, and persistence of restrictive proscriptions of religious (Islamic) law. These theories take as exogenous the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012433961
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Religion and growth
Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger - 2023
-together with standard growth models to frame the role of religion in economic growth. Unifying a growing literature, we argue that … religion can enhance or impinge upon economic growth through all four elements because it shapes individual preferences …, societal norms, and institutions. Religion affects physical capital accumulation by influencing thrift and financial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014383297
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Creativity over time and space : a historical analysis of European cities
Serafinelli, Michel; Tabellini, Guido Enrico - 2021
Creativity is often highly concentrated in time and space, and across different domains. What explains the formation and decay of clusters of creativity? We match data on notable individuals born in Europe between the XIth and the XIXth century with historical city data. The production and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012495140
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Internal migration, remittances and economic development
Pan, Xiameng; Sun, Chang - 2023
We develop a quantitative spatial equilibrium model with endogenous migration and remittance decisions within households to examine the joint effect of migration and remittances on economic development. We apply the model to internal migration in China. Counterfactual analysis of the calibrated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014334396
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Human capital affects religious identity : causal evidence from Kenya
Alfonsi, Livia; Bauer, Michal; Chytilová, Julie; … - 2023
We study how human capital and economic conditions causally affect the choice of religious denomination. We utilize a longitudinal dataset monitoring the religious history of more than 5,000 Kenyans over twenty years, in tandem with a randomized experiment (deworming) that has exogenously...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014431171
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Refugee resettlement, redistribution and growth
Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2018
This paper studies the effect of refugee resettlement on human capital accumulation. The analysis is performed in a growth model with endogenous fertility. I show how refugee resettlement from a more advanced and wealthier economy to a less advanced and less wealthy economy combined with income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011814840
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How I learned to stop worrying and love the crisis
Fidrmuc, Jan; Tichit, Ariane - 2012
We investigate the effects of economic crises on the subsequent economic performance, economic reform, democratization and institutional change. Our analysis is based on a sample of post-communist countries, most of which experienced severe economic crises during the 1990s. We find that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009488896
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Education, growth and income inequality
Teulings, Coen N.; Rens, Thijs van - 2002
When types of workers are imperfect substitutes, the Mincerian rate of return to human capital is negatively related to the supply of human capital. We work out a simple model for the joint evolution of output and wage dispersion. We estimate this model using cross-country panel data on GDP and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011408972