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The moldable young: How institutions impact social trust

Bergh, Andreas; Öhrvall, Richard - 2016

Social trust is linked to many desirable economic and social outcomes, but the causality between trust and institutions is debated. Using new data from a representative sample of 2,668 Swedish expatriates (surveyed in the SOM Institute's Swedish Expatriate Survey 2014), we use variation in time...

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The long-term impact of religion on social capital: lessons from post-war Czechoslovakia

Mikula, Stepan; Reggiani, Tommaso; Sabatini, Fabio - 2023

We exploit a historical experiment that occurred in Czechoslovakia after World War Two to study the drivers of social capital accumulation in an extremely unfavorable environment. Between 1945 and 1948, the Sudetenland became the scene of ethnic cleansing, with the expulsion of nearly three...

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European migration, national origin and long-term economic development in the US

Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés; von Berlepsch, Viola - 2013

coincided with the greatest waves of European migration (1880, 1910) in order to uncover the settlement patterns of migrants of … determined both the attractiveness of different US counties at the time of migration, as well as current levels of development … difference for long-term economic development whatsoever. This holds for the first and second wave of migration. Hence being …

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Determinants and economic consequences of colonization: A global analysis

Ertan, Arhan; Putterman, Louis; Fiszbein, Martin - 2012

Research on economic growth suggests that the era of colonization has had an impact on the levels of economic development of countries around the globe. However, why some countries were colonized early, some late, and others not at all, and what effect these differences have had on current...

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A History of Violence: The Culture of Honor as a Determinant of Homicide in the US South

Grosjean, Pauline - School of Economics, UNSW Business School - 2011

According to the culture of honor hypothesis, the high prevalence of homicide in the US South originates from the settlement of the region by herders from the fringes of Britain in the late 18th century. Combining contemporary homicide data with historical Census data, this paper confirms that...

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Does migration promote democratization? Evidence from the Mexican transition

Pfutze, Tobias - In: Journal of Comparative Economics 40 (2012) 2, pp. 159-175

This paper presents evidence for a causal effect of international migration on the functioning of democratic … migration significantly increases the probability of a party in opposition to the former state party PRI to win in a municipal …

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Human Capital, Technology Diffusion, and Economic Growth - Evidence from Prussian Census Data

Hornung, Erik - ifo Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der …

This volume was prepared by Erik Hornung while he was working in the Department Human Capital and Innovation of the Ifo Institute. It was completed in December 2012 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Economics Department of the University of Munich (LMU). The thesis consists of four core...

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Low expectations or different evaluations – What explains immigrants’ high levels of trust in host country institutions?

Roeder, Antje; Muehlau, Peter - Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS), … - 2010

Several recent studies show that immigrants exhibit higher levels of trust in public institutions than natives. This study uses pooled data from the European Social Survey to examine possible reasons for this ‘over-confidence’ of immigrants, arguing that it is largely the relatively lower...

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Emigration and Democracy

Docquier, Frédéric; Lodigiani, Elisabetta; Rapoport, … - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2011

Migration is an important and yet neglected determinant of institutions. The paper documents the channels through which …

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European migration, national origin and long-term economic development in the US

Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés; Berlepsch, Viola von - Disciplinegroep Economische Geografie, Faculteit … - 2013

determined both the attractiveness of different US counties at the time of migration, as well as current levels of development …. The results indicate that while there is a strong and positive impact associated with overall migration, the national …

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