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Education, Social Mobility and Religious Movements : A Theory of the Islamic Revival in Egypt

Binzel, Christine - 2013

This paper examines the economic origins of the Islamic revival that took place in Egypt in the 1970-80s, and in Muslim societies more generally. We provide the first systematic evidence of a decline in social mobility among educated youth in Egypt. Developing a behavioral model of religion, we...

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Geographical Roots of the Coevolution of Cultural and Linguistic Traits

Galor, Oded - 2018

This research explores the geographical origins of the coevolution of cultural and linguistic traits in the course of human history, relating the geographical roots of long-term orientation to the structure of the future tense, the agricultural determinants of gender bias to the presence of...

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Why Does Ethnic Diversity Undermine Public Goods Provision? An Experimental Approach

Habyarimana, James P.; Humphreys, Macartan; Posner, … - 2021

A large and growing literature links high levels of ethnic diversity to low levels of public goods provision. Yet while the empirical connection between ethnic heterogeneity and the underprovision of public goods is widely accepted, there is little consensus on the specific mechanisms through...

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Millet, Rice, and Isolation : Origins and Persistence of the World's Most Enduring Mega-State

Kung, James Kai-sing; Özak, Ömer; Putterman, Louis; … - 2022

We propose and test empirically a theory describing the endogenous formation and persistence of mega-states, using China as an example. We suggest that the relative timing of the emergence of agricultural societies, and their distance from each other, set off a race between their autochthonous...

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Economic Production and the Spread of Supernatural Beliefs

Araújo, Daniel; Carrillo, Bladimir; Sampaio, Breno - 2022

Religion and beliefs in the supernatural are present in all societies. Yet, studies about the spread of small-scale supernatural belief systems remain quite limited. In this work, we test the anthropological hypothesis that historical dependence on pastoralism favored the adoption of customs...

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Explaining Happiness Trends in Europe

Easterlin, Richard A.; O'Connor, Kelsey - 2023

In Europe differences among countries in the overall change in happiness since the early 1980s have been due chiefly to the generosity of welfare state programs increasing happiness going with increasing generosity and declining happiness with declining generosity. This is the principal...

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Intergenerational Persistence in Income and Social Class : The Impact of Within-Group Inequality

Blanden, Jo - 2011

Family income is found to be more closely related to sons' earnings for a cohort born in 1970 compared to one born in 1958. This result is in stark contrast to the finding on the basis of social class; intergenerational mobility for this outcome is found to be unchanged. Our aim here is to...

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The Labor/Land Ratio and India's Caste System

Duleep, Harriet Orcutt - 2012

This paper proposes that India's caste system and involuntary labor were joint responses by a nonworking landowning … class to a low labor/land ratio in which the rules of the caste system supported the institution of involuntary labor. The …-century statistics on regional population/land ratios linked to anthropological measures of caste-system rigidity. Both the longitudinal …

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Deprivation, Segregation, and Socioeconomic Class of UK Immigrants : Does English Proficiency Matter?

Aoki, Yu - 2018

This paper studies the causal effect of English proficiency on residential location outcomes and the socioeconomic class of immigrants in England and Wales, exploiting a natural experiment. Based on the phenomenon that young children learn a new language more easily than older children, we...

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Do Natural Disasters Affect Human Capital? An Assessment Based on Existing Empirical Evidence

Baez, Javier - 2011

The last few years have seen a notable increase in the number of studies investigating the causes and effects of natural disasters in many dimensions. This paper seeks to review and assess available empirical evidence on the ex-post microeconomic effects of natural disasters on the accumulation...

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