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Corruption, Culture and Organizational Form

Duggar, Elena; Duggar, Madhur - 2005

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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 …

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The Origins and Long-Run Consequences of the Division of Labor

Depetris-Chauvin, Emilio - 2017

This research explores the historical roots and persistent effects of the division of labor in pre-modern societies. Exploiting a novel ethnic-level dataset, which combines geocoded ethnographic, linguistic and genetic data, it advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that population...

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Witchcraft Beliefs, Social Relations, and Development

Gershman, Boris - 2021

Beliefs in witchcraft, or the ability of certain people to intentionally cause harm via supernatural means, have been documented across societies all over the world. Extensive ethnographic research on this phenomenon over the past century explored the many roles of witchcraft beliefs in...

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The rise of monogamy

Çitçi, Sadettin Haluk - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 5 (2014) 4, pp. 377-397

Why has polygyny, marriage of a man to multiple women, common in most societies throughout history, almost disappeared in modern industrialized countries? Do women play a role in its disappearance? A simple theoretical model suggests that at the later stage of the transition from polygyny to...

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The origins of the division of labor in pre-modern times

Depetris-Chauvin, Emilio; Özak, Ömer - 2018

This research explores the historical roots of the division of labor in pre-modern societies. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that intra-ethnic diversity had a positive effect on the division of labor across ethnicities in the pre-modern era. Exploiting a variety of...

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War, Peace, and the Making of the State : A Theory of Social Order

Wang, Yijiang - 2019

Two players in the modeled primitive society independently decide whether or not to arm and fight each other for distributive gains. Wealth and technology levels determine the balance of force and whether the society is in Rousseau's Garden of Eden, the Hobbesian war, or an arms race. Wealth and...

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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...

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The Origins of the Division of Labor in Pre-Industrial Times

Depetris-Chauvin, Emilio - 2020

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Heterogeneous Effects of Liberal Institutions on Economic Development : The Role of Cultural Coherence with Formal Institutions

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