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From Tradition to Modernity: Economic Growth in a Small World
Lindner, Ines; Strulik, Holger - 2011
This paper introduces the Small World model (Watts and Strogatz, Nature, 1998) into the theory of economic growth and investigates how increasing economic integration affects firm size and effciency, norm enforcement, and aggregate economic performance. When economic integration is low and local...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294445
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From Tradition to Modernity: Economic Growth in a Small World
Lindner, Ines; Strulik, Holger - 2012
This paper introduces the Small World model (Watts and Strogatz, Nature, 1998) into the theory of economic growth and investigates how increasing economic integration affects firm size and efficiency, norm enforcement, and aggregate economic performance. When economic integration is low and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326250
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From Tradition to Modernity: Economic Growth in a Small World
Lindner, Ines; Strulik, Holger - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Leibniz … - 2011
This paper introduces the Small World model (Watts and Strogatz, Nature, 1998) into the theory of economic growth and investigates how increasing economic integration affects firm size and effciency, norm enforcement, and aggregate economic performance. When economic integration is low and local...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009245598
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From Tradition to Modernity: Economic Growth in a Small World
Lindner, Ines; Strulik, Holger - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012
Accepted for publication in the <I>Journal of Development Economics</I>.<P> This paper introduces the Small World model (Watts and Strogatz, Nature, 1998) into the theory of economic growth and investigates how increasing economic integration affects firm size and efficiency, norm enforcement, and...</p></i>
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255851
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From tradition to modernity : economic growth in a small world
Lindner, Ines; Strulik, Holger - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009722670
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Higher education and the income-fertility nexus
Strulik, Holger - In: Journal of Population Economics 37 (2024) 1
apparent contradiction. I consider the education and fertility choices of individuals with different learning abilities …. Acquiring higher education requires an investment of time and income. As a result, people with higher education have fewer … children but, controlling for the level of education, increasing income leads to higher fertility. Rising income and skill …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015333168
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From Tradition to Modernity: Economic Growthin a Small World
Lindner, Ines; Strulik, Holger - Universität <Hannover> / Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche … - 2011
This paper introduces the Small World model (Watts and Strogatz, Nature,1998) into the theory of economic growth and investigates how increasing economic integrationaects rm size and effciency, norm enforcement, and aggregate economic performance.When economic integration is low and local...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009354078
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A Mass Phenomenon: The Social Evolution of Obesity
Strulik, Holger - 2012
This paper proposes a theory for the social evolution of obesity. It considers a society, in which individuals experience utility from consumption of food and non-food, the state of their health, and the evaluation of their appearance by others. The theory explains why, ceteris paribus, poor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294431
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From Worship to Worldly Pleasures: Secularization and Long-Run Economic Growth
Strulik, Holger - 2012
In medieval times, most people identifi ed with religious values and aggregate income and productivity grew at glacier speed. In the 20th century, religion played a much lesser role in daily life and income and productivity grew at high and unprecedented rates. The present paper develops a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329883
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Secularization and long-run economic growth
Strulik, Holger - 2015
This paper integrates a simple theory of identity choice into a framework of endogenous economic growth to explain how secularization can be both cause and consequence of economic development. A secular identity allows an individual to derive more pleasure from consumption than religious...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010491463