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The Empire Is Dead, Long Live the Empire! Long-Run Persistence of Trust and Corruption in the Bureaucracy

Becker, Sascha O.; Boeckh, Katrin; Hainz, Christa; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

countries, communities on both sides of the long-gone Habsburg border have been sharing common formal institutions for a century …

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Knocking on Heaven’s Door? Protestantism and Suicide

Becker, Sascha O.; Woessmann, Ludger - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

We model the effect of Protestant vs. Catholic denomination in an economic theory of suicide, accounting for differences in religious-community integration, views about man’s impact on God’s grace, and the possibility of confessing sins. We test the theory using a unique micro-regional...

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Not the Opium of the People: Income and Secularization in a Panel of Prussian Counties

Becker, Sascha O.; Woessmann, Ludger - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

The interplay between religion and the economy has occupied social scientists for long. We construct a unique panel of … doubt on causal interpretations of the religion- economy nexus in Prussian secularization. …

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Institutions For High-Quality Growth: What They Are And How To Acquire Them

Rodrik, Dani - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

This paper opens with a discussion of the types of institutions that allow markets to perform adequately. While we can … identify in broad terms what these are, there is no unique mapping between markets and the non-market institutions that … institutions. A range of evidence indicates that participatory democracies enable higher-quality growth. …

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In Search of the Holy Grail: Policy Convergence, Experimentation and Economic Performance

Mukand, Sharun W.; Rodrik, Dani - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

We consider a model of policy choice in which appropriate policies depend on a country’s own circumstances, but the presence of a successful leader generates an informational externality and results in too little ‘policy experimentation’. Corrupt governments are reined in while honest...

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Institutions Rule: The Primacy of Institutions Over Geography and Integration in Economic Development

Rodrik, Dani; Subramanian, Arvind; Trebbi, Francesco - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

We estimate the respective contributions of institutions, geography, and trade in determining income levels around the … world, using recently developed instruments for institutions and trade. Our results indicate that the quality of … institutions 'trumps' everything else. Once institutions are controlled for, measures of geography have at best weak direct effects …

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Does Parental Education Affect Fertility? Evidence from Pre-Demographic Transition Prussia

Becker, Sascha O.; Cinnirella, Francesco; Woessmann, Ludger - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

While women's employment opportunities, relative wages, and the child quantity-quality trade-off have been studied as factors underlying historical fertility limitation, the role of parental education has received little attention. We combine Prussian county data from three censuses--1816, 1849,...

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iPEHD – The ifo Prussian Economic History Database

Becker, Sascha O.; Cinnirella, Francesco; Hornung, Erik; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

as education, religion, fertility, and many others for Prussian economic development in the 19th century. The service of …

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Education Promoted Secularization

Becker, Sascha O.; Nagler, Markus; Woessmann, Ludger - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

Why did substantial parts of Europe abandon the institutionalized churches around 1900? Empirical studies using modern data mostly contradict the traditional view that education was a leading source of the seismic social phenomenon of secularization. We construct a unique panel dataset of...

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On the Efficacy of Reforms: Policy Tinkering, Institutional Change and Entrepreneurship

Iyigun, Murat; Rodrik, Dani - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

We analyse the interplay of policy reform and entrepreneurship in a model where investment decisions and policy outcomes are both subject to uncertainty. The production costs of non-traditional activities are unknown and can only be discovered by entrepreneurs who make sunk investments. The...

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