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Ancestral norms, legal origins, and female empowerment
Brodeur, Abel; Mabeu, Marie Christelle; Pongou, Roland - 2020
A large literature documents persistent impacts of formal historical institutions. However, very little is known about how these institutions interact with ancestral traditions to determine long-term economic and social outcomes. This paper addresses this question by studying the persistent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012199043
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014229151
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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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The role of constitutions on poverty : a cross-national investigation
Minkler, Lanse; Prakash, Nishith - 2015
In this paper we use novel historical data on economics and social rights from the constitutions of 201 countries and an instrument variable strategy to answer two important questions. First, do economic and social rights provisions in constitutions reduce poverty? Second, does the strength of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010488146
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Growth, colonization, and institutional development : in and out of Africa
Bertocchi, Graziella - 2011
research agenda which accounts not only for basic economic and demographic factors, but also for the role of history and … institutional development. After reporting results from standard growth regressions, I analyze the role of Africa's peculiar history … research. -- growth ; Africa ; history ; colonization ; institutions ; state fragility ; slavery …
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The evolution of citizenship : economic and institutional determinants
Bertocchi, Graziella (contributor);  … - 2006
. We compile a new data set on citizenship laws across countries of the world which documents how these institutions have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003522985
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The age of mass migration : economic and institutional determinants
Bertocchi, Graziella (contributor);  … - 2006
through a set of instruments exploiting colonial history and the quality of institutions inherited from the past. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003522695
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Income, democracy, and critical junctures
Cervellati, Matteo; Jung, Florian; Sunde, Uwe; Vischer, … - 2012
-colonies, as well as within the sample of former colonies. These heterogeneous effects are related to colonial history and early …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009679601
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Better means more : property rights and high-growth aspiration entrepreneurship
Estrin, Saul; Korosteleva, Julia; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - 2009
This paper contrasts the determinants of entrepreneurial entry and high-growth aspiration entrepreneurship. Using the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) surveys for 42 countries over the period 1998-2005, we analyse how institutional environment and entrepreneurial characteristics affect...
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Shadow economy and entrepreneurial entry
Estrin, Saul; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - 2010
We analyze theoretically and empirically the impact of the shadow economy on entrepreneurial entry, utilising 1998-2005 individual-level Global Entrepreneurship Monitor data merged with macro level variables. A simple correlation coefficient suggests a positive linear link between the size of...
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