The main goal of this paper to reconstructing the Administrative and Socio-Economic History of Wombärma district during the Darg regime of Ethiopia. That means the study courses the period from 1974 till the downfall of military government in 1991, in which the people of Wombärma district,...

The 1850s witnessed one of the earliest American history. During the decade the proportion of individuals receiving public assistance -- increased from 5.8 in 1850 to 10.2 in 1860, an increase of 76 percent. Previous attempts to explain the increase in antebellum pauperism have been hampered by...

Paula Thiede war die erste Frau, die die Leitung einer Gewerkschaft übernahm. Möglich wurde dies durch die Handlungsmacht der gut organisierten Hilfsarbeiterinnen im Druckgewerbe. Gemeinsam mit solidarischen Kollegen entwickelten sie Strategien, um die Anliegen von Gleichberechtigung und...

We question the received wisdom that birth limitation was absent among historical populations before the fertility transition of the late nineteenth-century. Using duration and panel models on family-level data, we find a causal, negative short-run effect of living standards on birth spacing in...

This paper studies the transmission mechanism from family culture to economic institutions, by analyzing the impact of the within family organization on the original design of the public pension systems. We build a simple OLG model with families featuring either weak or strong internal ties....

Background: Nutrition in utero and infancy may causally affect health and mortality at old ages. Until now, very few studies have demonstrated long-Run effects on survival of early life nutrition, mainly because of data limitations and confounding issues. Methods: This paper investigates whether...