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Consumption, Social Capital, and the ‘Industrious Revolution’ in Early Modern Germany

Ogilvie, S. - Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge - 2009

capital” of traditional institutions? How were they affected by social constraints on women? It finds that people in central … Europe did desire to increase market work and consumption. But elites used the “social capital” of traditional institutions …

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Community Characteristics and Demographic Development: Three Württemberg Communities, 1558 - 1914

Ogilvie, S.; Küpker, M.; Maegraith, J. - Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge - 2009

Demographic behaviour is influenced not just by attributes of individuals but also by characteristics of the communities in which those individuals live. A project on ‘Economy, Gender, and Social Capital in the German Demographic Transition’ is analyzing the longterm determinants of...

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Malthus meets Luther : the economics behind the German Reformation

Curuk, Malik; Smulders, Sjak - 2016

investigate this idea in a simple model of regime change and show that the regions where the prevailing institutions are less …

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Law and social capital : evidence from the Code Napoleon in Germany

Buggle, Johannes C. - 2013 - This version: July 2, 2013

Do legal institutions affect norms of cooperation? Using the introduction of the Code Napoleon during the Napoleonic … Wars in Germany as a historical experiment, I show that a positive shock to the quality of legal institutions can increase … be a potential mechanism for the relationship between legal institutions and social capital. …

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Magna Carta

Desierto, Desiree; Hall, Jacob; Koyama, Mark - 2023

Magna Carta, a pivotal moment in the emergence of constitutional government, institutionalised constraints on royal power. We depict it as an optimal agreement between two coalitions capable of violence: the king's loyal coalition of barons and the rebel barons. This type of agreement is more...

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The Penalty-Duel and Institutional Design : Is There a Neeskens-Effect?

Leininger, Wolfgang; Ockenfels, Axel - 2021

We document an increase in the scoring probability from penalties in soccer, which separates the time period before 1974 significantly from that after 1976: the scoring probability increased by 11%. We explain this finding by arguing that the institution of penalty-shooting before 1974 is best...

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Diversity & empire : Baltic Germans & comparative development

Vitola, Alise; Grigoriadis, Theocharis - 2018

In this paper, we explore the long-run effects of cultural and imperial legacies in the Baltic region. Drawing evidence from the 1897 population census in the Russian Empire, we find that localities with a higher share of German historical population are inclined to be more developed in...

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