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inequality and dynamics. Here we analyse the two concepts in a comparative perspective for the same individuals in Italy and the …
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rates in Italy since 1887, comparing the extent of ‘electoral-violence cycles' between areas with a higher and lower … presence of organized crime, under democratic and non-democratic regimes, proportional and majoritarian elections, and between … contested and non-contested districts. We provide additional evidence on the influence of organized crime on politics using …
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This paper documents industrial output and labor productivity growth around the poor periphery 1870-1940 (Latin America, the European periphery, the Middle East, South Asia, Southeast Asia and East Asia). Intensive and extensive industrial growth accelerated there over these seven critical...
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peripheral industrialization stretch into the late 19th century, the high point of peripheral industrialization was the 1950 …-1973 period, which saw widespread import- substituting industrialization. This period was also the high point of unconditional …
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between urbanization and trends in aggregate economic structure, such as industrialization; and changes in the internal …
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capital and trust (Banfield (1958), Putnam (1993)) across different parts of Italy, using microeconomic data on households and …
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-employed individuals, we find robust evidence that women in Italy pay more for overdraft facilities than men. We could not find any …
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To explain the extremely long-term persistence (more than 500 years) of positive historical experiences of cooperation (Putnam 1993), we model the intergenerational transmission of priors about the trustworthiness of others. We show that this transmission tends to be biased toward excessively...
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Industrialization experiences differ substantially across countries. We use a benchmark model of structural change to … countries can generate variation in industrialization experiences similar to those found in the data, including premature …
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, change. A significant episode of emigration took place between 2010 and 2014 from Italy following the deep economic recession … Italy. Combining administrative data on Italian citizens who reside abroad and data on characteristics of city councils …
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