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Persecution Perpetuated: The Medieval Origins of Anti-Semitic Violence in Nazi Germany

Voth, Hans-Joachim; Voigtlaender, Nico - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

How persistent are cultural traits? This paper uses data on anti-Semitism in Germany and finds continuity at the local level over more than half a millennium. When the Black Death hit Europe in 1348-50, killing between one third and one half of the population, its cause was unknown. Many...

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How the West 'Invented' Fertility Restriction

Voth, Hans-Joachim; Voigtländer, Nico - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

Europeans restricted their fertility long before the Demographic Transition. By raising the marriage age of women and ensuring that a substantial proportion remained celibate, the "European Marriage Pattern" (EMP) reduced childbirths by up to one third between the 14th and 18th century. In a...

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Institutions for High-Quality Growth: What They are and How to Acquire Them

Rodrik, Dani - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2000

This paper opens with a discussion of the types of institutions that allow markets to perform adequately. While we can … identify in broad terms what these are, there is no unique mapping between markets and the non-market institutions that … institutions. A range of evidence indicates that participatory democracies enable higher-quality growth. …

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In Search of the Holy Grail: Policy Convergence, Experimentation, and Economic Performance

Mukand, Sharun; Rodrik, Dani - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2002

We consider a model of policy choice in which appropriate policies depend on a country's own circumstances, but the presence of a successful leader generates an informational externality and results in too little 'policy experimentation.' Corrupt governments are reined in while honest...

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When Economic Reform Goes Wrong: Cashews in Mozambique

McMillan, Margaret Mcmillan; Rodrik, Dani; Welch, Karen Horn - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2002

Mozambique liberalized its cashew sector in the early 1990s in response to pressure from the World Bank. Opponents of the reform have argued that the policy did little to benefit poor cashew farmers while bankrupting factories in urban areas. Using a welfare-theoretic framework, we analyze the...

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Married to intolerance : attitudes toward intermarriage in Germany, 1900-2006

Voigtländer, Nico; Voth, Hans-Joachim - In: The American economic review 103 (2013) 3, pp. 79-85

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A century of global equity market correlations

Quinn, Dennis P.; Voth, Hans-Joachim - In: The American economic review 98 (2008) 2, pp. 535-540

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Do democratic transitions produce bad economic outcomes?

Rodrik, Dani; Wacziarg, Romain - In: The American economic review 95 (2005) 2, pp. 50-55

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How does globalization affect the synchronization of business cycles?

Kose, M. Ayhan; Prasad, Eswar S.; Terrones, Marco E. - In: The American economic review 93 (2003) 2, pp. 57-62

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International business cycles : world, region, and country-specific factors

Kose, M. Ayhan; Otrok, Christopher M.; Whiteman, Charles H. - In: The American economic review 93 (2003) 4, pp. 1216-1239

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