In this paper the authors recall the history of Jubilee debt cancellations, emphasizing what their social purpose was …

This paper discusses the two leading views of history and political institutions. For some scholars, institutions are … that while there is clear evidence that history matters and has long-term effects, there is not enough data to help us …

the lens of a model of marriage matching and intergenerational transmission of inequality. For both female and male … young males. Lower marriage matching in the 18th and 19th centuries is accompanied by lower inequality across households …, yielding a positive time series correlation between sorting and inequality. There are also intergenerational matching returns …