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Easterlin, Richard A.; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 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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Trust, Growth and Well-being: New Evidence and Policy Implications

Algan, Yann; Cahuc, Pierre - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This survey reviews the recent research on trust, institutions and growth. It discusses the various measures of trust … and documents the substantial heterogeneity of trust across space and time. The conceptual mechanisms and the methods … employed to identify the causal impact of trust on economic performance are reviewed. We document the mechanisms of …

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

Algan, Yann; Cahuc, Pierre - 2013

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

Depetris-Chauvin, Emilio; Özak, Ömer - 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; Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded; … - 2018

arguably reflect the adverse effect of population diversity on interpersonal trust, its contribution to divergence in …

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

Greif, Avner; Iyigun, Murat; Sasson, Diego - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

We analyze the role of risk-sharing institutions in transitions to modern economies. Transitions requires individual-level risk-taking in pursuing productivity-enhancing activities including using and developing new knowledge. Individual-level, idiosyncratic risk implies that distinct...

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Geographical Origins and Economic Consequences of Language Structures

Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer; Sarid, Assaf - 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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Risk, institutions and growth: Why England and not China?

Greif, Avner; Iyigun, Murat; Sasson, Diego - 2011

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Mass Refugee Inflow and Long-Run Prosperity: Lessons from the Greek Population Resettlement

Murard, Elie; Sakalli, Seyhun Orcan - 2018

This paper investigates the long-term consequences of mass refugee inflow on economic development by examining the effect of the first large-scale population resettlement in modern history. After the Greco-Turkish war of 1919–1922, 1.2 million Greek Orthodox were forcibly resettled from Turkey...

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Education, social mobility and religious movements: A theory of the Islamic revival in Egypt

Binzel, Christine; Carvalho, Jean-Paul - 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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