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Religion in Economic History : A Survey
Becker, Sascha O. - 2020
This chapter surveys the recent social science literature on religion in economic history, covering both socioeconomic causes and consequences of religion. Following the rapidly growing literature, it focuses on the three main monotheisms—Judaism, Christianity, and Islam—and on the period up...
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Reversing Fortunes of German Regions, 1926–2019 : Boon and Bane of Early Industrialization?
Berbée, Paul; Braun, Sebastian; Franke, Richard - 2022
This paper shows that 19th-century industrialization is an important determinant of the significant changes in Germany …, economic ascent in the South. Exploiting plausibly exogenous variation in access to coal, we show that early industrialization … industrialization explains most of the decline in regional inequality observed in the 1960s and 1970s and about half of the current …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014079408
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Catch Me If You Can : Education and Catch-Up in the Industrial Revolution
Becker, Sascha O. - 2009
industrialization itself. We find that basic education significantly accelerated non-textile industrialization in both phases of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013154487
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Is Industrialization Conducive to Long-Run Prosperity?
Franck, Raphaël - 2015
This research explores the long-run effect of industrialization on the process of development. In contrast to … the French industrial revolution, the research establishes that regions in which industrialization was more intensive …. Nevertheless, intensive industrialization has had an adverse effect on income per capita, employment and equality by the turn of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016331
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Three Revolutions of the Modern Era
Easterlin, Richard A. - 2019
The emergence and evolution of modern science since the 17th century has led to three major breakthroughs in the human condition. The first, the Industrial Revolution, started in the late 18th century and is based chiefly on developments associated with the rise of the natural sciences. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012867155
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Stunting and Selection Effects of Famine : A Case Study of the Great Chinese Famine
Gørgens, Tue; Meng, Xin; Vaithianathan, Rhema - 2011
The Great Chinese Famine of 1959-1961 is puzzling, since despite the high death rates, there is no discernable diminution in height amongst the majority of cohorts who were exposed to the famine in crucial growth years. An explanation is that shorter children experienced greater mortality and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014053268
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Voting Up? The Effects of Democracy and Franchise Extension on Human Stature
Batinti, Alberto; Costa-Font, Joan; Hatton, Timothy J. - 2022
We study the health effects of the spread of democratic institutions and the extension of voting rights in 15 European countries since the middle of the nineteenth century. We employ both cross country and cohort variation in heights and employ a new instrument for democracy and the extension of...
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Infant Mortality and the Health of Survivors : Britain 1910-1950
Hatton, Timothy J. - 2010
The first half of the twentieth century saw rapid improvements in the health and height of British children. Average height and health can be related to infant mortality through a positive selection effect and a negative scarring effect. Examining town-level panel data on the heights of school...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141783
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War and Stature : Growing Up During the Nigerian Civil War
Akresh, Richard - 2011
The Nigerian civil war of 1967-70 was precipitated by secession of the Igbo-dominated south-eastern region to create the state of Biafra. It was the first civil war in Africa, the predecessor of many. We investigate the legacies of this war four decades later. Using variation across ethnicity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117195
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Personality Traits and the Marriage Market
Dupuy, Arnaud - 2012
Which and how many attributes are relevant for the sorting of agents in a matching market? This paper addresses these questions by constructing indices of mutual attractiveness that aggregate information about agents' attributes. The first k indices for agents on each side of the market provide...
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