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Historical data: where to find them, how to use them

Giuliano, Paola; Matranga, Andrea - 2020

The use of historical data has become a standard tool in economics, serving three main purposes: to examine the influence of the past on current economic outcomes; to use unique natural experiments to test modern economic theories; and to use modern economic theories to refine our understanding...

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Gender: an historical perspective

Giuliano, Paola - 2017

Social attitudes toward women vary significantly across societies. This chapter reviews recent empirical research on various historical determinants of contemporary differences in gender roles and gender gaps across societies, and how these differences are transmitted from parents to children...

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Winter is coming : the long-run effects of climate change on conflict, 1400-1900

Iyigun, Murat; Nunn, Nathan; Qian, Nancy - 2017

This paper investigates the long-run effects of climate change on conflict by examining cooling from 1400-1900 CE, a period that includes most of the Little Ice Age. We construct a geo-referenced and digitized database of conflicts in Europe, North Africa, and the Near East from 1400-1900, which...

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Economic vs. epidemiological approaches to measuring the human capital impacts of infectious disease elimination

Chuard, Caroline; Schwandt, Hannes; Becker, Alexander D.; … - 2022

A rich economic literature has examined the human capital impacts of disease-eliminating health interventions, such as the rollout of new vaccines. This literature is based on reduced-form approaches which exploit proxies for disease burden, such as mortality, instead of actual infection counts,...

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The American origin of the French Revolution

Ottinger, Sebastian; Rosenberger, Lukas - 2023

France sent five thousand men to fight alongside George Washington's army in the American Revolutionary War. We show that the French combatants' exposure to the United States of America increased support for the French Revolution a decade later. French regions (départements) from which more...

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The colonial legacy in India : how persistent are the effects of historical institutions?

Lakshmi Iyer; Weir, Coleson - 2024

Using updated data, we analyze the long-run effects of two British colonial institutions established in India. Iyer (2010) showed that areas under direct colonial rule had fewer schools, health centers, and roads than areas under indirect colonial rule. Two decades later, we find that these...

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Regional differences in intersectoral linkages and diverse patterns of structural transformation

Paul, Saumik; Raju, Dhushyanth - 2022

censuses for Ghana, we test and find support for four predictions related to this hypothesis: (1) a recent, positive mining … the south of the country, (2) the effect of the mining output shock on output and productivity growth in other sectors … other sectors with respect to the change in employment in mining closely follows the regional patterns of intersectoral …

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The wife's protector : a quantitative theory linking contraceptive technology with the decline in marriage

Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih; Kopecky, Karen A. - 2019

the 20th century. Some economic history is also presented. …

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The role of historical resource constraints in modern gender inequality : a cross-country analysis

Hazarika, Gautam; Jha, Chandan Kumar; Sarangi, Sudipta - 2014

We posit that historical resource scarcities played a role in the emergence of gender norms inimical to women that persist to this day. This thesis is supported by our finding that nations' historical resource endowments, as measured by the historical availability of arable land, are...

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Education promoted secularization

Becker, Sascha O.; Nagler, Markus; Woessmann, Ludger - 2014

Why did substantial parts of Europe abandon the institutionalized churches around 1900? Empirical studies using modern data mostly contradict the traditional view that education was a leading source of the seismic social phenomenon of secularization. We construct a unique panel dataset of...

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