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The Top 1 Percent in International and Historical Perspective

Alvaredo, Facundo - 2013

U-shaped path over time, particularly in Europe, where inherited wealth is, in Europe if not in the United States …

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Queens

Dube, Oeindrila - 2017

Are states led by women less prone to conflict than states led by men? We answer this question by examining the effect of female rule on war among European polities over the 15th-20th centuries. We utilize gender of the first born and presence of a female sibling among previous monarchs as...

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Cross-Country Inequality Trends

Acemoglu, Daron - 2021

much less, in (continental) Europe over the same time period. I review the two most popular explanations for these … differential trends: that relative supply of skills increased faster in Europe, and that European labor market institutions … where labor market institutions creating wage compression in Europe also encourage more investment in technologies …

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History's Masters : The Effect of European Monarchs on State Performance

Ottinger, Sebastian; Voigtländer, Nico - 2022

, independent of their ability, and ii) the wide-spread inbreeding among the ruling dynasties of Europe led over centuries to quasi …

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The Consequences of Radical Reform : The French Revolution

Acemoglu, Daron; Cantoni, Davide; Johnson, Simon; … - 2022

the 1790s and later under Napoleon invaded and controlled large parts of Europe. Together with invasion came various …

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Happiness Adaptation to Income Beyond "Basic Needs"

Di Tella, Rafael; MacCulloch, Robert - 2021

We test for whether, once "basic needs" are satisfied, there is happiness adaptation to further gains in income using three data sets. Individual German Panel Data from 1985-2000, and data on the well-being of over 600,000 people in a panel of European countries from 1975-2002, shows different...

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Innovativity : A Comparison Across Seven European Countries

Mohnen, Pierre; Mairesse, Jacques; Dagenais, Marcel - 2021

This paper proposes a framework to account for innovation similar to the usual accounting framework in production analysis and a measure of innovativity comparable to that of total factor productivity. This innovation accounting framework is illustrated using micro-aggregated firm data from the...

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The Scots May Be Brave But They are Neither Healthy Nor Happy

Bell, David N.F; Blanchflower, David G. - 2021

worse than the rest of Europe. Deaths from chronic liver disease and lung cancer are particularly prevalent in Scotland. The …

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