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Malthus meets Luther : the economics behind the German Reformation
Curuk, Malik; Smulders, Sjak - 2016
The Reformation provided a powerful source of legitimacy for secularization of governance and enabled the regional authorities to change the institutional structure to eliminate the inefficiencies under the prevailing (Catholic) regime. We investigate this idea in a simple model of regime change...
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Education promoted secularization : conference paper
Becker, Sascha O.; Nagler, Markus; Woessmann, Ludger - 2014
Why did substantial parts of Europe abandon the institutionalized churches around 1900? Empirical studies using modern data mostly contradict the traditional view that education was a leading source of the seismic social phenomenon of secularization. We construct a unique panel dataset of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010491163
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How political, spatial, and administrative changes shape the local level : evidence from municipalities
Dörr, Luisa - 2022
Luisa Dörr prepared this study while she was working at the ifo Center for Public Finance and Political Economy. The study was completed in February 2022 and accepted as doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It consists of three distinct empirical essays...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013342684
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Topic salience and political polarization : evidence from the German "PISA shock"
Sancassani, Pietro - 2023
Does the salience of a topic affect polarization in related parliamentary debates? When discussing a salient topic … polarization of parliamentary debates. In a difference-in-differences framework, I find that the PISA shock caused an 8.8% of a … standard deviation increase in polarization of education debates compared to other topics. The effect is long-lasting and fades …
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Magna Carta
Desierto, Desiree; Hall, Jacob; Koyama, Mark - 2023
Magna Carta, a pivotal moment in the emergence of constitutional government, institutionalised constraints on royal power. We depict it as an optimal agreement between two coalitions capable of violence: the king's loyal coalition of barons and the rebel barons. This type of agreement is more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014353308
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The Evolution of the German Tort Law in the 19th Century - An Economic Analysis of the Evolution of Law
Eckardt, Martina - 1999
Despite the advances in New Institutional Economics about the economic consequences of institutions and legal rules, up to now we have only limited knowledge about the mechanisms of the evolution of law. By combining the main ideas of Evolutionary Economics and New Institutional Economics this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319319
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Urban political structure and inequality : political economy lessons from early modern German cities
Schaff, Felix - 2022
What was the impact of urban political structure on economic inequality in preindustrial times? I document that more closed political institutions were associated with higher economic inequality in a panel of early modern German cities. To investigate the mechanisms behind that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013170896
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The evolution of the German tort law in the 19th century : an economic analysis of the evolution of law
Eckardt, Martina - 1999
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013420234
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The evolution of the German tort law in the 19th century : an economic analysis of the evolution of law
Eckardt, Martina - 1999
Despite the advances in New Institutional Economics about the economic consequences of institutions and legal rules, up to now we have only limited knowledge about the mechanisms of the evolution of law. By combining the main ideas of Evolutionary Economics and New Institutional Economics this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011540355
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Learning to Participate in Politics : Evidence from Jewish Expulsions in Nazi Germany
Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude - 2017
This paper provides causal evidence on the importance of socioeconomic circumstances, socialization, and childhood events, in the formation of adult political behaviour and attitudes, using region-by-cohort variation in exposure to the Jewish expulsions in Nazi Germany as a quasi-experiment. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012955040