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Linking Conflict to Inequality and Polarization

Esteban, Joan; Ray, Debraj - Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, … - 2009

In this paper we study a behavioral model of conflict that provides a basis for choosing certain indices of dispersion … as indicators for conflict. We show that the (equilibrium) level of conflict can be expressed as an (approximate) linear … function of the Gini coefficient, the Herfindahl-Hirschman fractionalization index, and a specific measure of polarization due …

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Witch trials: Discontent in early modern Europe

Hudson, Chris - 2016

This paper examines the relationship between income and witch trials in early modern Europe. We start by using climate data to proxy for income levels. This builds on previous work by exploiting a far richer panel dataset covering 356 regions and 260 years, including both seasonal temperature...

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Witch trials : discontent in early modern Europe

Hudson, Chris - 2016

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Nine protestants are to be esteemed worth ten catholics. Representing religion, labour and economic performance in pre-Industrial Europe, c.1650 - c.1800.

Lambrecht, Thijs A. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2001

Religion was one of the factors that was frequently identified by seventeenth- and eighteenth-century economists as exerting an important influence on the pre-industrial European economies. These writers were especially interested in the economic effects of the Reformation on the economic...

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Jewish Persecutions and Weather Shocks : 1100-1800

Anderson, Warren; Johnson, Noel D.; Koyama, Mark - 2014

What factors caused the persecution of minorities in medieval and early modern Europe? We build a model that predicts that minority communities were more likely to be expropriated in the wake of negative income shocks. Using panel data consisting of 1,366 city-level persecutions of Jews from 936...

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Persistent Antimarket Culture: A Legacy of the Pale of Settlement after the Holocaust

Grosfeld, Irena; Rodnyansky, Alexander; Zhuravskaya, … - In: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 5 (2013) 3, pp. 189-226

We estimate long-term effects of Jewish presence in Europe before World War II, using discontinuity at the border of the "Pale of Settlement" area where Jews were allowed to live in the Russian Empire. Current residents of the Pale have lower support for market, and are less entrepreneurial but...

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Married to Intolerance: Attitudes toward Intermarriage in Germany, 1900-2006

Voigtländer, Nico; Voth, Hans-Joachim - In: American Economic Review 103 (2013) 3, pp. 79-85

We analyze under what conditions intermarriage can be used as an indicator of tolerance, and whether such tolerant attitudes persisted in Germany during the twentieth century. We find strong evidence for the persistence of tolerant attitudes towards intermarriage with Jews. At the same time, our...

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From the Persecuting to the Protective State? Jewish Expulsions and Weather Shocks from 1100 to 1800

Anderson, R. Warren; Johnson, Noel D; Koyama, Mark - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

What factors caused the persecution of minorities in medieval and early modern Europe? We build a model that predicts that minority communities were more likely to be expropriated in the wake of negative income shocks. We then use panel data consisting of 785 city-level expulsions of Jews from...

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Ottoman conquests and European ecclesiastical pluralism

Iyigun, Murat (contributor) - 2006

rivals of a different affiliation. The overall patterns of conflict in continental Europe as well as those between the … military conquests in Europe significantly reduced intra-European feuds. -- cooperation ; conflict ; religion ; institutions …

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Cultures, clashes and peace

Fletcher, Erin; Iyigun, Murat - 2009

ultimate determinants of conflict. However, fractionalization in all its demographic forms is endogenous in the long run. In … the relationship between fractionalization and the propensity of internal conflict statistically insignificant. Finally … ecclesiastical conflicts shows that religous fractionalization likely has negative effects on economic growth. -- Conflict ; religion …

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