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Property Rights and Gender Bias : Evidence from Land Reform in West Bengal

Bhalotra, Sonia R. - 2016

While land reforms are typically pursued in order to raise productivity and reduce inequality across households, an unintended consequence may be increased within-household gender inequality. We analyse a tenancy registration programme in West Bengal, and find that it increased child survival...

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Better Means More : Property Rights and High-Growth Aspiration Entrepreneurship

Estrin, Saul - 2009

high-growth aspiration projects. In particular, a strong property rights system is important for high-growth aspiration …

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Entrepreneurial Entry : Which Institutions Matter?

Aidis, Ruta - 2009

institutional context. We pinpoint the critical roles of property rights and the size of the state sector for entrepreneurial …

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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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Genetic Diversity and the Origins of Cultural Fragmentation

Ashraf, Quamrul H. - 2013

Despite the importance attributed to the effects of diversity on the stability and prosperity of nations, the origins of the uneven distribution of ethnic and cultural fragmentation across countries have been underexplored. Building on the role of deeply-rooted biogeographical forces in...

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Monotheism (from a Sociopolitical and Economic Perspective)

Iyigun, Murat - 2007

The Axial Age, which lasted between 800 B. C. E. and 200 B. C. E., covers an era in which the spiritual foundations of humanity were laid simultaneously and independently in various geographic areas, and all three major monotheisms of Judaism, Christianity and Islam were born between 1200 B. C....

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Religion in Economic History : A Survey

Becker, Sascha O. - 2020

-country analyses seek to understand the broader determinants of religious practice and its various effects across the world. We …

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Control Rights in Public-Private Partnerships

Francesconi, Marco - 2006

This paper develops a theory of the allocation of authority between two parties that produce impure public goods. We show that the optimal allocation depends on technological factors, the parties' valuations of the goods produced, and the degree of impurity of these goods. When the degree of...

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Gender Discrimination in Property Rights

Casari, Marco - 2014

Starting from the medieval period, women in the Italian Alps experienced a progressive erosion in property rights over …

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Decolonization, Property Rights and Language Conflicts

Dasgupta, Indraneel - 2017

We model political contestation over school language policy, within linguistic communities where weak property rights … property rights protection might exacerbate such language conflicts, even as they reduce the chances of persisting with … property rights protection and the welfare consequences of educational indigenization: such indigenization may improve social …

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