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Trust, Growth and Well-Being : New Evidence and Policy Implications

Algan, Yann - 2015

This survey reviews the recent research on trust, institutions and growth. It discusses the various measures of trust … market and the product market. The last part reviews recent progress to identify how institutions and policies can affect …

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The Origins of the Division of Labor in Pre-Modern Times

Depetris-Chauvín, Emilio - 2018

This research explores the historical roots of the division of labor in pre-modern societies. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that intra-ethnic diversity had a positive effect on the division of labor across ethnicities in the pre-modern era. Exploiting a variety of...

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Diversity and Conflict

Arbatli, Cemal Eren - 2018

This research advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that interpersonal population diversity has contributed significantly to the emergence, prevalence, recurrence, and severity of intrasocietal conflicts. Exploiting an exogenous source of variations in population diversity across...

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Constitutions and Economic Development : Evidence from the American Indian Nations

Akee, Randall - 2012

the results are not explained by differences in other institutions or geographic characteristics. Additional results …

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Cultural Diversity, Geographical Isolation, and the Origin of the Wealth of Nations

Ashraf, Quamrul H. - 2012

This research argues that variations in the interplay between cultural assimilation and cultural diffusion have played a significant role in giving rise to differential patterns of economic development across the globe. Societies that were geographically less vulnerable to cultural diffusion...

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Past Dominations, Current Institutions and the Italian Regional Economic Performance

Di Liberto, Adriana - 2015

We study the connection between economic performance and the quality of government institutions for the sample of 103 … unified Italian State. Our results suggest that past historical institutions play a significant role on the current public … confirms that the quality of institutions matters for development, and that history can be used to find suitable instruments …

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Geographical Origins and Economic Consequences of Language Structures

Galor, Oded - 2016

This research explores the economic causes and consequences of language structures. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that variations in pre-industrial geographical characteristics that were conducive to higher return to agricultural investment, larger gender gap in...

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Distribution of Natural Resources, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Development : Growth Dynamics with Two Elites

Falkinger, Josef; Grossmann, Volker - 2021

entrepreneurial elite, resulting in economic policy and institutions which are more conducive to entrepreneurship and productivity …

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The Role of Entrepreneurial Human Capital as a Driver of Endogenous Economic Growth

Ehrlich, Isaac - 2017

We model investment in entrepreneurial human capital (EHC) – the representative enterprise's share of production capacity allocated to investment in innovative industrial and commercial knowledge – as a distinct channel through which firm-specific human capital drives endogenous growth. Our...

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The Relationship between Economic Growth and Democracy : Alternative Representations of Technological Change

Heshmati, Almas - 2017

This study investigates the relationship between economic growth and democracy by estimating a nation's production function specified as static and dynamic models using panel data. In estimating the production function, it applies a single time trend, multiple time trends and the general index...

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