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Bitter sugar: slavery and the black family
Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - 2020
for migrants. By 1990, the effect of sugar is replaced by that of slavery and the black share, consistent with the spread …We empirically assess the effect of historical slavery on the African American family structure. Our hypothesis is that … female single headship among blacks is more likely to emerge in association not with slavery per se, but with slavery in …
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Does a spoonful of sugar levy help the calories go down? : an analysis of the UK Soft Drinks Industry Levy
Dickson, Alex; Gehrsitz, Markus; Kemp, Jonathan - 2021
a few global soft drinks brands reduced sugar content and hence avoided the tiered levy. For brands that maintained … their original sugar content, the levy was on average over-shifted resulting in substantial retail price increases …
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The "Out of Africa" hypothesis, human genetic diversity, and comparative economic development
Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded - 2012
This research argues that deep-rooted factors, determined tens of thousands of years ago, had a significant effect on the course of economic development from the dawn of human civilization to the contemporary era. It advances and empirically establishes the hypothesis that in the course of the...
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The labor/land ratio and India's caste system
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt - 2012
This paper proposes that India's caste system and involuntary labor were joint responses by a nonworking landowning class to a low labor/land ratio in which the rules of the caste system supported the institution of involuntary labor. The hypothesis is tested in two ways: longitudinally, with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009548081
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The long-term determinants of female HIV infection in Africa : the slave trade, polygyny, and sexual behavior
Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - 2015
We study the long-term determinants of the high rates of HIV infection in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly among women, with a focus on family structure and sexual behavior as shaped by the demographic shock following the transatlantic slave trade. First we show that, in clusters where polygyny...
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Effects of mandatory military service on wages and other socioeconomic outcomes
Puhani, Patrick A.; Sterrenberg, Margret K. - 2021
In this paper, we estimate the effects of mandatory military service by exploiting the post-cold war decrease in the need for soldiers causing a substantial number of potential conscripts not to be drafted into the German military. Specifically, using previously unavailable information on degree...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012517860
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Coerced labor in the cotton sector : how global commodity prices (don't) transmit to the poor
Danzer, Alexander M.; Grundke, Robert - 2016
This paper investigates the economic fortunes of coerced vs. free workers in a global supply chain. To identify the differential treatment of otherwise similar workers we resort to a unique exogenous labor demand shock that affects wages in voluntary and involuntary labor relations differently....
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Strangers and foreigners : trust and attitudes toward citizenship
Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo; Tedeschi, Gian Luca - 2022
We analyze the relationship between natives' attitudes towards citizenship acquisition for foreigners and trust. Our hypothesis is that, in sub-Saharan Africa, the slave trade represents the deep factor behind contemporary attitudes toward citizenship, with more intense exposure to historical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012820685
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Genetic diversity and the origins of cultural fragmentation
Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded - 2013
genetic diversity, predominantly determined during the prehistoric "out of Africa" migration of humans, is an underlying cause …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009697544
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The macrogenoeconomics of comparative development
Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded - 2017
vibrant literature, highlighting the roles played by the Neolithic Revolution and the prehistoric "out of Africa" migration of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011596149