Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; Lameli, Alfred; … - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2010
It has long been argued that economic phenomena are affected by culture. However, the causal effect of cultural ties on … exchange, and because it is hard to separate culture from other influences. In this paper, we address these issues by using a … linguistic micro-data from a unique language survey conducted between 1879 and 1888 in about 45,000 German schools. The recorded …