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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010422242
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Secularization and long-run economic growth
Strulik, Holger - 2015 - Revised Version: March 2015
This paper integrates a simple theory of identity choice into a framework of endogenous economic growth to explain how secularization can be both cause and consequence of economic development. A secular identity allows an individual to derive more pleasure from consumption than religious...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010492354
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Education, Social Mobility and Religious Movements : A Theory of the Islamic Revival in Egypt
Binzel, Christine - 2013
This paper examines the economic origins of the Islamic revival that took place in Egypt in the 1970-80s, and in Muslim societies more generally. We provide the first systematic evidence of a decline in social mobility among educated youth in Egypt. Developing a behavioral model of religion, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013085059
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Is Corruption Contagious? An Econometric Analysis
Attila, Joseph - 2008
In this paper, I analyze how corruption in one country may be affected by its neighbors' corruption. It seeks to explain why corruption is perpetuating in large geographical areas populated by developing countries despite anticorruption efforts made in the single country. In our empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012723025
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012900776
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012968399
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The Origins of the Division of Labor in Pre-Industrial Times
Depetris-Chauvin, Emilio - 2020
This research explores the historical roots of the division of labor in pre-modern societies. Exploiting a variety of identification strategies and a novel ethnic level dataset combining geocoded ethnographic, linguistic and genetic data, it shows that higher levels of intra-ethnic diversity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012852776
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Secularization and Long-Run Economic Growth
Strulik, Holger - 2015
This paper integrates a simple theory of identity choice into a framework of endogenous economic growth to explain how secularization can be both cause and consequence of economic development. A secular identity allows an individual to derive more pleasure from consumption than religious...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013026464
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Why Does Ethnic Diversity Undermine Public Goods Provision? An Experimental Approach
Habyarimana, James P.; Humphreys, Macartan; Posner, … - 2021
A large and growing literature links high levels of ethnic diversity to low levels of public goods provision. Yet while the empirical connection between ethnic heterogeneity and the underprovision of public goods is widely accepted, there is little consensus on the specific mechanisms through...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317460