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Trust, Growth and Well-Being : New Evidence and Policy Implications

Algan, Yann - 2015

This survey reviews the recent research on trust, institutions and growth. It discusses the various measures of trust … market and the product market. The last part reviews recent progress to identify how institutions and policies can affect …

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Constitutions and Economic Development : Evidence from the American Indian Nations

Akee, Randall - 2012

the results are not explained by differences in other institutions or geographic characteristics. Additional results …

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Geographical Origins and Economic Consequences of Language Structures

Galor, Oded - 2016

This research explores the economic causes and consequences of language structures. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that variations in pre-industrial geographical characteristics that were conducive to higher return to agricultural investment, larger gender gap in...

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The Origins of the Division of Labor in Pre-Modern Times

Depetris-Chauvín, Emilio - 2018

This research explores the historical roots of the division of labor in pre-modern societies. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that intra-ethnic diversity had a positive effect on the division of labor across ethnicities in the pre-modern era. Exploiting a variety of...

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Diversity and Conflict

Arbatli, Cemal Eren - 2018

This research advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that interpersonal population diversity has contributed significantly to the emergence, prevalence, recurrence, and severity of intrasocietal conflicts. Exploiting an exogenous source of variations in population diversity across...

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Past Dominations, Current Institutions and the Italian Regional Economic Performance

Di Liberto, Adriana - 2015

We study the connection between economic performance and the quality of government institutions for the sample of 103 … unified Italian State. Our results suggest that past historical institutions play a significant role on the current public … confirms that the quality of institutions matters for development, and that history can be used to find suitable instruments …

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Cultural Diversity, Geographical Isolation, and the Origin of the Wealth of Nations

Ashraf, Quamrul H. - 2012

This research argues that variations in the interplay between cultural assimilation and cultural diffusion have played a significant role in giving rise to differential patterns of economic development across the globe. Societies that were geographically less vulnerable to cultural diffusion...

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Risk, Institutions and Growth : Why England and Not China?

Greif, Avner - 2011

We analyze the role of risk-sharing institutions in transitions to modern economies. Transitions requires individual …-level, idiosyncratic risk implies that distinct risk-sharing institutions - even those providing the same level of insurance - can lead to … different growth trajectories if they differently motivate risk-taking. Historically, risk sharing institutions were selected …

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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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Volatility and Growth : Governments are Key

Jetter, Michael - 2013

There exists a persistent disagreement in the literature over the effect of business cycles on economic growth. This paper offers a solution to this disagreement, suggesting that volatility carries a positive direct effect, but also a negative indirect effect, operating through the insurance...

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