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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012983798
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Religion and growth
Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger - 2023
work effort, fertility, and the demographic transition. And it affects total factor productivity by constraining or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014495766
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Religion and growth
Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger - 2023
work effort, fertility, and the demographic transition. And it affects total factor productivity by constraining or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014391202
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Religion and growth
Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger - 2023
work effort, fertility, and the demographic transition. And it affects total factor productivity by constraining or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014383297
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Institutional transplant and cultural proximity : evidence from nineteenth-century Prussia
Lecce, Giampaolo; Ogliari, Laura - 2015 - This version: November 2015
The economic impact of an institutional transplant depends on the underlying cultural envi-ronment of the receiving country. This paper provides the first evidence that the positive effect of importing good institutions cancels out when the receiving territories are characterized by cultural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011405198
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Institutional Transplant and Cultural Proximity : Evidence from Nineteenth-Century Prussia
Lecce, Giampaolo - 2016
The economic impact of an institutional transplant depends on the underlying cultural environment of the receiving country. This paper provides the first evidence that the positive effect of importing good institutions cancels out when the receiving territories are characterized by cultural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013000827
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The Impact of Formal and Informal Institutions on Per Capita Income
Dobler, Constanze - 2010
Despite the many approaches of neoclassical and endogenous growth theory, economists still face problems explaining the reasons for income differences between countries. Institutional economics and the deep determinants of growth literature try to depart from pure economic facts to examine...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141261
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Population and economic growth : a review essay
Škare, Marinko; Blažević, Sanja - In: Amfiteatru economic : an economic and business research … 17 (2015) 40, pp. 1036-1053
For centuries, scientists from various scientific fields have been leading lively discussions on the (bidirectional) relationship between population growth and economic growth. Particular attention was given to the nature of the population growth variable, i.e. whether it is an endogenous or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011824435
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On the undesirable repercussions of gender norms in an endogenous growth model
Sakamoto, Ryo; Minami, Katsunori - 2024
gender norms on fertility and economic growth to explain the phenomena recently observed across high-income countries. To … this end, we construct an overlapping generations model with endogenous fertility and labor supply, incorporating gender … norms and R&D activities. We demonstrate that conventional gender norms can impede fertility and economic growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015066905
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Genetics, family structure, and economic growth
Zak, Paul J. - 2000 - This version July 7, 2000
fertility rates and reducing output growth in the transitional dynamics. If human or physical stocks are sufficiently low, the … model shows that an economy can be caught in a fertility-caused poverty trap, while countries with more resources will …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011566054