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Escaping from Hunger Before WW1 : Nutrition and Living Standards in Western Europe and USA in the Late Nineteenth Century
Gazeley, Ian - 2017
We estimate calories available to workers' households in the USA, Belgium, Britain, France and Germany in 1890/1. We … estimate that households in the USA, on average, had about five hundred daily calories per equivalent adult more than their … French and German counterparts, with Belgian and British workers closer to the USA levels. We ask if that energy bonus gave …
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Why Did the Netherlands Develop so Early? The Legacy of the Brethren of the Common Life
Akcomak, Semih - 2013
This research provides an explanation for high literacy, economic growth and societal developments in the Netherlands … Netherlands. The BCL stimulated human capital accumulation by educating Dutch citizens without inducing animosity from the … of literacy in the Netherlands. In addition, there are positive effects of the BCL on book production and on city growth …
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Do Mandatory Pensions Decrease Household Savings? Evidence for the Netherlands
Euwals, Rob - 2004
The Dutch mandatory pension system consists of two parts: a public pay-as-you-go part that provides a minimum income to all Dutch inhabitants over age 64; and an occupation-specific capital-funded part that provides supplementary retirement income. The goal of this paper is to test for the effect...
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Financial Development and Economic Growth : Evidence from Ten New EU Members
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2014
This paper reviews the main features of the banking and financial sector in ten new EU members, and then examines the relationship between financial development and economic growth in these countries by estimating a dynamic panel model over the period 1994-2007. The evidence suggests that the...
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Inequality, Reordering and Divergent Growth : Processes of Neighbourhood Change in Dutch Cities
Modai-Snir, Tal - 2018
The socio-economic mosaic of urban neighbourhoods changes under the influence of three distinctive distributional processes: reordering of the socio-economic position of urban neighbourhoods; changing levels of inequality between neighbourhoods; and an overall growth or decline in income levels...
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Growth, Colonization, and Institutional Development : In and Out of Africa
Bertocchi, Graziella - 2011
This essay investigates the determinants of the growth performance of Africa. I start by illustrating a broader 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...
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Engineers, Innovative Capacity and Development in the Americas
Maloney, William F. - 2014
Using newly collected national and sub-national data and historical case studies, this paper argues that differences in innovative capacity, captured by the density of engineers at the dawn of the Second Industrial Revolution, are important to explaining present income differences, and, in...
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China'S Great Boom as a Historical Process
Brandt, Loren; Rawski, Thomas G. - 2021
Beginning in the late 1970s, China's economy delivered the largest growth spurt in recorded history. Striking discontinuity between recent outcomes and the economic experience of the prior 200 years invites portrayal of recent events as a "China miracle" that requires neither economic nor...
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Two to Tangle : Financial Development, Political Instability and Economic Growth in Argentina (1896-2000)
Campos, Nauro F.; Karanasos, Menelaos; Tan, Bin - 2021
This paper investigates the effects of financial development and political instability on economic growth in a power-ARCH framework with data for Argentina from 1896 to 2000. Our findings suggest that (i) informal or unanticipated political instability (e.g., guerrilla warfare) has a direct...
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The Historical Impact of Coal on Cities
Clay, Karen; Lewis, Joshua; Severnini, Edson - 2023
Historically coal has offered both benefits and costs to urban areas. Benefits include coal's role in fueling industry and thus employment. The primary costs are air pollution and its impact on human health. This paper starts by using a Rosen-Roback style model to examine how differences in...
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