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Ottoman Conquests and European Ecclesiastical Pluralism
Iyigun, Murat - 2021
This paper emphasizes that the evolution of religious institutions in Europe was influenced by the expansionary threat …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318049
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History Matters: The Origins of Cultural Supply in Italy
BOROWIECKI, Karol Jan - Department of Economics, Trinity College Dublin - 2012
I investigate the consequences of long-run persistence of a societies’ preference towards cultural goods. Historical cultural activity is approximated with the frequency of births of classical composers during the Renaissance and is linked with contemporary supply of cultural activities in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010842945
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History matters: The origins of cultural supply in Italy
Borowiecki, Karol Jan - Institut for Virksomhedsledelse og Økonomi, Syddansk … - 2012
I investigate the consequences of long-run persistence of a societies’ preference towards cultural goods. Historical cultural activity is approximated with the frequency of births of classical composers during the Renaissance and is linked with contemporary supply of cultural activities in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818955
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Historical origins of cultural supply in Italy
Borowiecki, Karol Jan - Institut for Virksomhedsledelse og Økonomi, Syddansk … - 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/10011185414
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The long-term impact of religion on social capital : lessons from post-war Czechoslovakia
Mikula, Stepan; Reggiani, Tommaso; Sabatini, Fabio - 2023
We exploit a historical experiment that occurred in Czechoslovakia after World War Two to study the drivers of social capital accumulation in an extremely unfavorable environment. Between 1945 and 1948, the Sudetenland became the scene of ethnic cleansing, with the expulsion of nearly three...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014248714
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Culture, institutions & the long divergence
Bisin, Alberto; Rubin, Jared; Seror, Avner; Verdier, Thierry - 2021
(Islamic) law. These theories take as exogenous the cultural values that complement the prevailing institutions. As a result … institutional environment. In this paper, we address these issues by modeling the joint evolution of institutions and culture. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012433961
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Family Structure and the Education Gender Gap: Evidence from Italian Provinces
Bertocchi, Graziella; Bozzano, Monica - 2013
We investigate the determinants of the education gender gap in Italy in historical perspective with a focus on the influence of family structure. We capture the latter with two indicators: residential habits (nuclear vs. complex families) and inheritance rules (partition vs. primogeniture)....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328844
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Family Structure and the Education Gender Gap: Evidence from Italian Provinces
Bertocchi, Graziella; Bozzano, Monica - 2014
We investigate the determinants of the education gender gap in Italy in historical perspective with a focus on the influence of family structure. We capture the latter with two indicators: residential habits (nuclear vs. complex families) and inheritance rules (partition vs. primogeniture)....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010398354
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Family structure and the education gender gap : evidence from Italian provinces
Bertocchi, Graziella; Bozzano, Monica - 2013
We investigate the determinants of the education gender gap in Italy in historical perspective with a focus on the influence of family structure. We capture the latter with two indicators: residential habits (nuclear vs. complex families) and inheritance rules (partition vs. primogeniture)....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010199691
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Family structure and the education gender gap : evidence from Italian provinces
Bertocchi, Graziella; Bozzano, Monica - 2014
We investigate the determinants of the education gender gap in Italy in historical perspective with a focus on the influence of family structure. We capture the latter with two indicators: residential habits (nuclear vs. complex families) and inheritance rules (partition vs. primogeniture)....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010387949