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Growth, Colonization, and Institutional Development: In and Out of Africa
Bertocchi, Graziella - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
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 standard growth regressions, I analyze the role of Africa’s peculiar history …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009216756
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Growth, Colonization, and Institutional Development: In and Out of Africa
Bertocchi, Graziella - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
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 standard growth regressions, I analyze the role of Africa’s peculiar history …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009225960
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Growth, Colonization, and Institutional Development. In and Out of Africa
Bertocchi, Graziella - Dipartimento di Economia "Marco Biagi", Università … - 2011
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 standard growth regressions, I analyze the role of Africa’s peculiar history …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009150878
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Growth, colonization, and institutional development: In and out of Africa
Bertocchi, Graziella - 2011
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 standard growth regressions, I analyze the role of Africa's peculiar history …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278552
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Growth, History and Institutions
Bertocchi, Graziella - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
We illustrate the ongoing research line on Growth, History, and Institutions, which adds to economic growth analysis a …. We conclude with policy implications of the Growth, History, and Institutions research line. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005656343
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Family structure and the education gender gap : evidence from Italian provinces
Bertocchi, Graziella; Bozzano, Monica - In: CESifo economic studies : CESifo, a joint initiative of … 61 (2015) 1, pp. 263-300
We investigate the determinants of the education gender gap in Italy in a historical perspective with a focus on the influence of family structure. We capture the latter with two indicators: residential habits (nuclear versus complex families) and inheritance rules (partition versus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011397670
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Race v. suffrage : the determinants of development in Mississippi
Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - 2011
We investigate the long term determinants of political and economic outcomes over a new data set composed of Mississippi counties. We analyze the effect of disfranchisement on voting registration at the end of the nineteenth century (1896-9), as well as the impact of voting registration on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009427294
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Race v. suffrage : the determinants of development in Mississippi
Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009381967
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Family structure and the education gender gap : evidence from Italian provinces
Bertocchi, Graziella; Bozzano, Monica - 2013
We investigate the determinants of the education gender gap in Italy in historical perspective with a focus on the influence of family structure. We capture the latter with two indicators: residential habits (nuclear vs. complex families) and inheritance rules (partition vs. primogeniture)....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010199691
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Women, medieval commerce, and the education gender gap
Bertocchi, Graziella; Bozzano, Monica - 2013
We investigate the historical determinants of the education gender gap in Italy in the late nineteenth century, immediately following the country's Unification. We use a comprehensive newly-assembled database including 69 provinces over twenty-year sub-samples covering the 1861-1901 period. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009716765