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Long-Run Development and the New Cultural Economics
Gershman, Boris - 2016
This paper reviews recent economics literature on culture, with an emphasis on its relation to the field of long …-run growth and development. It examines the key issues debated in the new cultural economics: causal effects of culture on … economic outcomes, the origins and social costs of culture, as well as cultural transmission, persistence, and change. Some of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012983798
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Geographical Origins and Economic Consequences of Language Structures
Galor, Oded - 2017
This research explores the economic causes and consequences of language structures. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that variations in pre-industrial geographical characteristics that were conducive to higher returns to agricultural investment, gender gaps in agricultural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012968521
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Grassroots and Provincial Perspectives on Social Changes and Development in Colonial Punjab
AN, Byungmin - 2019
The aim of this paper is to describe the primary changes and development that outlined the history of Colonial Punjab and to narrate grassroots and provincial perspectives on the changes. I examine with a blend of grassroots and provincial perspectives by contextualizing actual historical events...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012897414
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From worship to worldly pleasures : secularization and long-run economic growth
Strulik, Holger - 2012 - This version: May 2012
In medieval times, most people identified 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 simple...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010357676
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Ethnic Geography : Measurement and Evidence
Hodler, Roland - 2018
The effects of ethnic geography, i.e., the distribution of ethnic groups across space, on economic, political and social outcomes are not well understood. We develop a novel index of ethnic segregation that takes both ethnic and spatial distances between individuals into account. Importantly, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012930690
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Heterogeneous Effects of Liberal Institutions on Economic Development : The Role of Cultural Coherence with Formal Institutions
Soto-Oñate, David - 2020
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Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012831447
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Ethnic geography : measurement and evidence
Hodler, Roland; Valsecchi, Michele; Vesperoni, Alberto - 2017
The effects of ethnic geography, i.e., the distribution of ethnic groups across space, on economic, political and social outcomes are not well understood. We develop a novel index of ethnic segregation that takes both ethnic and spatial distances between individuals into account. Importantly, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011747456
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The Empirics of Social Capital and Economic Development : A Critical Perspective
Sabatini, Fabio - 2006
This paper provides an introduction to the concept of social capital, and carries out a critical review of the empirical literature on social capital and economic development. The survey points out six main weaknesses affecting the empirics of social capital. Identified weaknesses are then used...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014059803
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Chapter 26. Social Capital
Durlauf, Steven N.; Fafchamps, Marcel - 2005
This chapter surveys research on social capital. We explore the concepts that motivate the social capital literature, efforts to formally model social capital using economic theory, the econometrics of social capital, and empirical studies of the role of social capital in various socioeconomic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014023761
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Chapter 13 Culture and Economic Development
Streeten, Paul - In: Handbook of the economics of art and culture : volume 1, (pp. 399-412). 2006
This chapter begins by noting that culture as an element in economic development in the Third World has been largely … neglected in traditional development economics, most writers either seeing culture as an obstacle to development or ignoring it … altogether. Recently a shift in thinking has occurred whereby culture is now more widely seen as being more central to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014023816