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Historical Origins of Cultural Supply in Italy
Borowiecki, Karol - 2015
I investigate the consequences of long-run persistency of a society's preferences for cultural goods. Historical cultural activity is approximated with the frequency of births of music composers during the Renaissance and is linked with contemporary measures of cultural activity in Italian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013027488
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The fight against geography : malaria and economic development in Italian regions
Percoco, Marco - 2011
Geography has long been considered as a fundamental prerequisite for economic development and growth. In recent years, a growing number of papers have considered the role of physical geography as a determinant of regional growth and development by considering it as a source of "intrinsic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008808084
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The Fight Against Geography : Malaria and Economic Development in Italian Regions
Percoco, Marco - 2011
Geography has long been considered as a fundamental prerequisite for economic development and growth. In recent years, a growing number of papers have considered the role of physical geography as a determinant of regional growth and development by considering it as a source of “intrinsic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014186282
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Like an Ink Blot on Paper : Testing the Diffusion Hypothesis of Mass Migration, Italy 1876-1920
Spitzer, Yannay; Zimran, Ariell - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Why were the poorer countries of the European periphery latecomers to the Age of Mass Migration? We test the diffusion hypothesis, which argues that mass emigration was delayed because it was primarily governed by a gradual process of spatial diffusion of migration networks. We propose a model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013537741
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Technology-Skill Complementarity in the Early Phase of Industrialization
Franck, Raphael - 2016
The research explores the effect of industrialization on human capital formation. Exploiting exogenous regional variations in the adoption of steam engines across France, the study establishes that, in contrast to conventional wisdom that views early industrialization as a predominantly...
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Public Support for Retirement Income Reform
Hicks, Peter - 2012
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Historical analysis of national subjective wellbeing using millions of digitized books
Hills, Thomas; Proto, Eugenio; Sgroi, Daniel - 2016
We present the first attempt to construct a long-run historical measure of subjective wellbeing using language corpora from millions of digitized books for the USA, UK, Germany, France, Italy and Spain. While existing measures go back at most to the 1970s, our measure goes back at least 200...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011476047
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Historical Analysis of National Subjective Wellbeing Using Millions of Digitized Books
Hills, Thomas - 2017
We present the first attempt to construct a long-run historical measure of subjective wellbeing using language corpora from millions of digitized books for the USA, UK, Germany, France, Italy and Spain. While existing measures go back at most to the 1970s, our measure goes back at least 200...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012969029
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The demography of Roman Italy : population dynamics in an ancient conquest society 201 BCE-14 CE
Hin, Saskia - 2013
This book provides a fresh perspective on the population history of Italy during the late Republic. It employs a range … to a revisionist 'middle count' scenario of population development in Italy. In tracing the population history of an …"This book provides a fresh perspective on the population history of Italy during the late Republic. It employs a range …
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Un demi-siècle de démographie dans les pays industriels : quelques réflexions sur un bilan
Roussel, Louis - In: Population : édition française : revue publiée par … 51 (1996) 2, pp. 417-437
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