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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009310834
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Historical data: where to find them, how to use them
Giuliano, Paola; Matranga, Andrea - 2020
migration, colonialism, natural disasters, and many other forces. We also point out which methodological advances allow …
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014229151
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Migration, migrants and policy in the United Kingdom
Hatton, Timothy J.; Wheatley Price, Stephen - 1999
This paper draws together, in the form of a survey, a number of different aspects of the United Kingdom's international migration experience since the Second World War. The areas covered include changes in the volume and composition of international migration and the factors influencing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011316910
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Hours and wages in the depression : British engineering, 1926-1938
Hart, Robert A. - 2000
On their intensive margins, firms in the British engineering industry adjusted to the severe falls in demand during the 1930s Depression by cutting hours of work. This provided an important means of reducing labour input and marginal labour costs, through movements from overtime to short-time...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325987
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Real wages, working time, and the great depression : what does micro evidence tell us?
Hart, Robert A.; Roberts, J. Elizabeth - 2010
Based largely on industry-level aggregate statistics, the prevailing view, and one that has strongly influenced macroeconomic thought, is that real wages during the cycle containing the Great Depression are either acyclical or countercyclical. Does this finding hold-up when more micro data are...
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General human capital and employment adjustment in the great depression: apprentices and journeymen in UK engineering
Hart, Robert A. (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001766925
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The end of destitution
Gazeley, Ian; Newell, Andrew - 2009
The paper presents a statistical generalisation, to working families in the whole of Britain, of Rowntree's finding that absolute poverty declined dramatically in York between 1899 and 1936. We use poverty lines devised by contemporary social investigators and two relatively newly-discovered...
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Past dominations, current institutions and the Italian regional economic performance
Di Liberto, Adriana; Sideri, Marco - 2015
confirms that the quality of institutions matters for development, and that history can be used to find suitable instruments. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010469675