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Sailing through history : the legacy of medieval sea trade on migrant perception and extreme right voting
Bottasso, Anna; Cerruti, Gianluca; Conti, Maurizio; … - 2024
In this study we evaluate the role that Mediterranean Medieval trade with Africa and the Middle-East still plays today in Italian politics by shaping the attitudes towards migrants of individuals that live close to Medieval ports. Trade connections between Medieval ports and Muslim Africa and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014533686
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Women, medieval commerce, and the education gender gap
Bertocchi, Graziella; Bozzano, Monica - 2013
We investigate the historical determinants of the education gender gap in Italy in the late nineteenth century, immediately following the country's Unification. We use a comprehensive newly-assembled database including 69 provinces over twenty-year sub-samples covering the 1861-1901 period. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009716765
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Ottoman conquests and European ecclesiastical pluralism
Iyigun, Murat (contributor) - 2006
This paper emphasizes that the evolution of religious institutions in Europe was influenced by the expansionary threat … the first half of the 16th century with the Ottoman Empire's territorial expansion in Eastern Europe. Various historical … rivals of a different affiliation. The overall patterns of conflict in continental Europe as well as those between the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003278952
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The cliometrics of international migration : a survey
Hatton, Timothy J. - 2010
migrations. Here I focus on the period 1850 to 1940 and chiefly on migration from Europe to the New World. The survey is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003959313
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012296635
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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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Capital shares and income inequality : evidence from the long run
Bengtsson, Erik; Waldenström, Daniel - 2015
This paper investigates the relationship between the capital share in national income and personal income inequality over the long run. Using a new historical cross-country database on capital shares in 19 countries and data from the World Wealth and Income Database, we find strong long-run...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011408188
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The use of quantile methods in economic history
Clarke, Damian; Llorca-Jaña, Manuel; Pailañir, Daniel - 2021
Quantile regression and quantile treatment effect methods are powerful econometric tools for considering economic impacts of events or variables of interest beyond the mean. The use of quantile methods allows for an examination of impacts of some independent variable over the entire distribution...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012604416
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Religion in economic history: a survey
Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger - 2020
Western Europe. Finally, cross-country analyses seek to understand the broader determinants of religious practice and its …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012239065
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Stalin and the origins of mistrust
Nikolova, Milena; Popova, Olga; Otrachshenko, Vladimir - 2019
We show that current differences in trust levels within former Soviet Union countries can be traced back to the system of forced prison labor during Stalin's rule, which was marked by high incarceration rates, repression, and harsh punishments. We argue that those exposed to forced labor camps...
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