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Labor scarcity, technology adoption and innovation: evidence from the cholera pandemics in 19th century France J. Econ. Growth (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Raphaël Franck
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Educational quality and disparities in income and growth across countries J. Econ. Growth (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Hanol Lee, Jong-Wha Lee
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Elites and health infrastructure improvements in industrializing regimes J. Econ. Growth (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Tommy Krieger
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Women legislators and economic performance J. Econ. Growth (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Thushyanthan Baskaran, Sonia Bhalotra, Brian Min, Yogesh Uppal
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Human capital, self-esteem, and income inequality J. Econ. Growth (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2023-10-09 Mark Gradstein, Luigi Ventura
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Automation and unemployment: help is on the way J. Econ. Growth (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2023-09-11 Hideki Nakamura, Joseph Zeira
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Social mobility and economic development J. Econ. Growth (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2023-09-13 Guido Neidhöfer, Matías Ciaschi, Leonardo Gasparini, Joaquín Serrano
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Missions, fertility transition, and the reversal of fortunes: evidence from border discontinuities in the emirates of Nigeria J. Econ. Growth (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2023-09-08 Dozie Okoye, Roland Pongou
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Female education and social change J. Econ. Growth (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2023-08-27 Mathias Bühler, Leonhard Vollmer, Johannes Wimmer
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“Let them eat cake”: drought, peasant uprisings, and demand for institutional change in the French Revolution J. Econ. Growth (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2023-07-08 Maria Waldinger
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Business is tense: new evidence on how language affects economic activity J. Econ. Growth (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2023-07-06 Francesco Campo, Luca Nunziata, Lorenzo Rocco
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Religion, rulers, and conflict J. Econ. Growth (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2023-06-16 Metin M. Coşgel, Thomas J. Miceli, Sadullah Yıldırım
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Culture, institutions and the long divergence J. Econ. Growth (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2023-05-15 Alberto Bisin, Jared Rubin, Avner Seror, Thierry Verdier
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‘Getting to Denmark’: the role of agricultural elites for development J. Econ. Growth (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2023-04-03 Nina Boberg-Fazlic, Peter Sandholt Jensen, Markus Lampe, Paul Sharp, Christian Volmar Skovsgaard
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Trade and economic growth: Does the sophistication of traded goods matter? J. Econ. Growth (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2023-04-04 P. Niluka S. P. Ekanayake, Jakob B. Madsen, Tushar Bharati
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Men. Male-biased sex ratios and masculinity norms: evidence from Australia’s colonial past J. Econ. Growth (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2023-04-01 Victoria Baranov, Ralph De Haas, Pauline Grosjean
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Democratization, leader education and growth: firm-level evidence from Indonesia J. Econ. Growth (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2023-02-15 Paul Pelzl, Steven Poelhekke
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Islam and human capital in historical Spain J. Econ. Growth (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2023-01-03 Francesco Cinnirella, Alireza Naghavi, Giovanni Prarolo
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The Impact of Long–Term Orientation Traits on Pandemic Fatigue Behavior: Evidence from the Columbian Exchange J. Econ. Growth (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2022-10-27 Sutanuka Roy, Sudhir Gupta, Rabee Tourky
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The empirics of economic growth over time and across nations: a unified growth perspective J. Econ. Growth (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2022-10-23 Matteo Cervellati, Gerrit Meyerheim, Uwe Sunde
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Liquidity creation, investment, and growth J. Econ. Growth (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2022-10-20 Thorsten Beck, Robin Döttling, Thomas Lambert, Mathijs van Dijk
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Landed elites and education provision in England: evidence from school boards, 1871-99 J. Econ. Growth (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2022-10-05 Marc Goñi
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Comparative European institutions and the little divergence, 1385–1800 J. Econ. Growth (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2022-10-03 António Henriques, Nuno Palma
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The power of religion J. Econ. Growth (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2022-08-28 Jeanet Sinding Bentzen, Gunes Gokmen
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Left-handedness and economic development J. Econ. Growth (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2022-08-20 Fabio Mariani, Marion Mercier, Luca Pensieroso
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Human capital transfers and sub-national development: Armenian and Greek legacy in post-expulsion Turkey J. Econ. Growth (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2022-07-04 Cemal Eren Arbatlı, Gunes Gokmen
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Fascistville: Mussolini’s new towns and the persistence of neo-fascism J. Econ. Growth (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2022-07-02 Mario F. Carillo
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Historical social contracts and their legacy: a disaggregated analysis of the medieval republics J. Econ. Growth (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2022-07-02 P. Buonanno, M. Cervellati, S. Lazzaroni, G. Prarolo
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Private equity and growth J. Econ. Growth (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2022-06-09 Boyan Jovanovic, Sai Ma, Peter L. Rousseau
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The rural exodus and the rise of Europe J. Econ. Growth (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2022-05-02 Thomas Baudin, Robert Stelter
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How does scientific progress affect cultural changes? A digital text analysis J. Econ. Growth (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2022-04-23 Michela Giorcelli, Nicola Lacetera, Astrid Marinoni
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State formation, social unrest and cultural distance J. Econ. Growth (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2022-04-16 Giampaolo Lecce, Laura Ogliari, Tommaso Orlando
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The economics of missionary expansion: evidence from Africa and implications for development J. Econ. Growth (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2022-04-07 Remi Jedwab, Felix Meier zu Selhausen, Alexander Moradi
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Measuring intragenerational mobility using aggregate data J. Econ. Growth (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2022-03-30 Aart Kraay, Roy Van der Weide
We propose a new method to approximate income distribution dynamics at the micro level using only macro data on aggregate moments of the income distribution. Under the assumption that individual incomes follow a lognormal autoregressive process, we show that the evolution of the mean and standard deviation of log income across individuals provides sufficient information to bound the degree of mobility
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Income, education and democracy J. Econ. Growth (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2022-03-29 Stephen L. Parente, Luis Felipe Sáenz, Anna Seim
In this paper we argue that a potentially important mechanism by which modernization leads to democratization is a rise in de facto power as more of the population becomes educated. Analyzing a model in which the polity dictates the pace of modernization through its choice of public education expenditures, we first show that (i) an autocrat must eventually fund public education as long as the masses
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Meritocracy and the inheritance of advantage J. Econ. Growth (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2022-03-05 David Comerford, José V. Rodríguez Mora, Michael J. Watts
We present a model where more accurate information on the background of individuals facilitates statistical discrimination, increasing inequality and intergenerational persistence in income. Surprisingly, more accurate information on the actual capabilities of workers leads to the same result—firms give increased weight to the more accurate information, increasing inequality, which itself fosters discrimination
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Creativity over time and space J. Econ. Growth (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2022-01-07 Michel Serafinelli, Guido Tabellini
Creativity is often highly concentrated in time and space, and across different domains. What explains the formation and decay of clusters of creativity? We match data on notable individuals born in Europe between the eleventh and the nineteenth centuries with historical city data. The production and attraction of creative talent is associated with city institutions that protected economic and political
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Roots of gender equality: the persistent effect of beguinages on attitudes toward women J. Econ. Growth (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2021-10-29 Annalisa Frigo, Èric Roca Fernández
This paper is concerned with the historical roots of gender equality. It proposes and empirically assesses a new determinant of gender equality: gender-specific outside options in the marriage market. In particular, enlarging women’s options besides marriage—even if only temporarily—increases their bargaining power with respect to men, leading to a persistent improvement in gender equality. We illustrate
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Automation, growth, and factor shares in the era of population aging J. Econ. Growth (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2021-09-01 Andreas Irmen
How does population aging affect economic growth and factor shares in times of increasingly automatable production processes? The present paper addresses this question in a new macroeconomic model of automation where competitive firms perform tasks to produce output. Tasks require labor and machines as inputs. New machines embody superior technological knowledge and substitute for labor in the performance
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Axis-orientation and knowledge transmission: evidence from the Bantu expansion J. Econ. Growth (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2021-08-16 Blouin, Arthur
This paper empirically examines Jared Diamond’s axis-orientation technology transmission hypothesis in the context of Sub-Saharan African agriculture. Consistent with Diamond (Guns, germs and steel: a short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years. Vintage, 1998), societies in southern Africa whose ancestors migrated directly south from west-central Africa—through the rainforest—engage in different
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Do attitudes toward risk taking affect entrepreneurship? Evidence from second-generation Americans J. Econ. Growth (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2021-08-16 Chanda, Areendam, Unel, Bulent
This paper empirically investigates the impact of willingness to take risks on entrepreneurship. We use a quarter century of data on second-generation Americans from Current Population Surveys in conjunction with a measure of willingness to take risks based on the Global Preference Survey. The level of risk taking in the country of origin is found to have a positive and significant impact on the likelihood
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Physiological constraints and the transition to growth: implications for comparative development J. Econ. Growth (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2021-07-03 Carl-Johan Dalgaard, Jakob B. Madsen, Holger Strulik
It is a well known fact that economic development and distance to the equator are positively correlated variables in the world today. It is perhaps less well known that as recently as 1500 C.E. it was the other way around. The present paper provides a theory of why the ‘latitude gradient’ changed sign in the course of the last half millennium. In particular, we develop a dynamic model of economic and
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Secular satiation J. Econ. Growth (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2021-06-07 Gilles Saint-Paul
Satiation of need is generally ignored by growth theory. I study a model where consumers may be satiated in any given good but new goods may be introduced. A social planner will never elect a trajectory with long-run satiation. Instead, he will introduce enough new goods to avoid such a situation. In contrast, the decentralized equilibrium may involve long run satiation. This, despite that the social
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Financing choice and local economic growth: evidence from Brazil J. Econ. Growth (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2021-05-13 Thiago Christiano Silva, Iftekhar Hasan, Benjamin Miranda Tabak
We study how financing non-traditional local activities, conceived here as a proxy for activity diversification, is associated with economic growth. We use municipality-level data from Brazil, a country with large geographical, social, and economic disparities observed across its more than 5500 municipalities. We find that finance to non-traditional local activities associates with higher municipal
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Rising inequality and trends in leisure J. Econ. Growth (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2021-03-30 Timo Boppart, L. Rachel Ngai
This paper develops a model that generates rising average leisure time and increasing leisure inequality along a path of balanced growth. Households derive utility from three sources: market goods, home goods and leisure. Home production and leisure are both activities that require time and capital. Households allocate time and capital to these non-market activities and supply labor. The dynamics are
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Multiple steady statehood: the roles of productive and extractive capacities J. Econ. Growth (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2021-03-13 Nils-Petter Lagerlöf
This paper proposes a model of statehood, defined as elite extraction of resources from a subject population. Different from most of the existing literature, the size of the subject population evolves endogenously in a Malthusian fashion, and the elite take into account the effects on future population levels when taxing the current population. The elite can spend extracted resources by investing in
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The European coal curse J. Econ. Growth (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2021-03-04 Elena Esposito, Scott F. Abramson
In this paper we examine the impact of natural resource wealth by focusing on historical coal-mining across European regions. As an exogenous source of variation in coal extraction activities, we rely on the presence of coal-deposits located on the earth’s surface, which historically facilitated the discovery and extraction of coal. Our results show that former coal-mining regions are substantially
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The American System of economic growth J. Econ. Growth (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2021-02-24 Marvin Goodfriend, John McDermott
The early history of industrialization in the United States—famously known as “The American System of Manufactures”—exhibited four key features: the substitution of specialized intermediate inputs for skilled work in assembling final goods, the freedom with which knowledge has long been shared in the United States, a learning technology that leverages existing mechanical know-how in human capital accumulation
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Disease and demographic development: the legacy of the plague J. Econ. Growth (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2021-01-25 Fabian Siuda, Uwe Sunde
This paper provides an empirical investigation of the hypothesis that population shocks such as the repeated outbreaks of the plague affected the timing of the demographic transition. The empirical analysis uses disaggregate data from Germany and exploits geographic variation in the exposure to medieval plague shocks. The findings document that areas with greater exposure to plague outbreaks exhibited
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Legacies of inequality: the case of Brazil J. Econ. Growth (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2020-10-12 Evan Wigton-Jones
This research examines the effects of inequality on long-run development within Brazil. I first exploit variation in temperature and precipitation to instrument for the local distribution of land in 1920 using a two stage least squares instrumental variables framework. My instrument is an index quantifying the suitability of local climatic conditions for plantation versus smallholder agriculture. I
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Nation-building, nationalism, and $$\hbox {wars}^*$$ wars ∗ J. Econ. Growth (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2020-09-23 Alberto Alesina, Bryony Reich, Alessandro Riboni
This paper explores how wars make nations, above and beyond their need to raise the fiscal capacity to finance warfare. As army size increases, states change the conduct of war, switching from mercenaries to mass conscript armies. In order for the population to accept fighting and enduring wars, the government elites provide public goods, reduce rent-extraction, and adopt policies to build a nation
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Was the post-1870 fertility transition a key contributor to growth in the West in the twentieth century? J. Econ. Growth (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2020-09-18 Jakob B. Madsen, Md. Rabiul Islam, Xueli Tang
The fertility transition that took place in the West from approximately the 1870s to the 1970s is often suggested to have been instrumental for the shift from the post-Malthusian growth regime to the modern growth regime. Constructing a unique data set over the period 1820–2015 for 21 advanced countries, this paper tests whether fertility has had real economic effects through the channels of education
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The bounty of the sea and long-run development J. Econ. Growth (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2020-08-17 Carl-Johan Dalgaard, Anne Sofie B. Knudsen, Pablo Selaya
We document that a high level of natural productivity of the ocean—a rich bounty of the sea—has had a positive and persistent impact on economic development since pre-industrial times until today. In addition, we document that it is the bounty of the sea of the ancestors of current populations which drives the persistent effect, not geography per se. We argue that an explanation is that a rich bounty
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Does it matter where you came from? Ancestry composition and economic performance of US counties, 1850–2010 J. Econ. Growth (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2020-08-09 Scott L. Fulford, Ivan Petkov, Fabio Schiantarelli
What impact on local development do immigrants and their descendants have in the short and long term? The answer depends on the attributes they bring with them, what they pass on to their children, and how they interact with other groups. We develop the first measures of the country-of-ancestry composition and of GDP per worker for US counties from 1850 to 2010. We show that changes in ancestry composition
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The origins of the division of labor in pre-industrial times J. Econ. Growth (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2020-08-01 Emilio Depetris-Chauvin, Ömer Özak
This research explores the historical roots of the division of labor in pre-industrial societies. Exploiting a variety of identification strategies and a novel ethnic level dataset combining geocoded ethnographic, linguistic and genetic data, it shows that higher levels of intra-ethnic diversity were conducive to economic specialization in the pre-industrial era. The findings are robust to a host of
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Growing collectivism: irrigation, group conformity and technological divergence J. Econ. Growth (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2020-06-04 Johannes C. Buggle
This paper examines whether collaboration within groups in pre-industrial agriculture favored the emergence of collectivist rather than individualist cultures. I document that societies whose ancestors jointly practiced irrigation agriculture historically have stronger collectivist norms today. This finding holds across countries, sub-national districts within countries, and migrants, and is robust
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The health costs of ethnic distance: evidence from sub-Saharan Africa J. Econ. Growth (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2020-05-26 Joseph Flavian Gomes
This paper shows that children of mothers who are ethnically more distant from their neighbours have worse health outcomes. I combine individual-level micro data from DHS surveys for 14 sub-Saharan African countries with a novel high-resolution dataset on the spatial distribution of ethnic groups at the \(1\,\hbox {km} \times 1\,\hbox {km}\) level. I measure ethnic distance using linguistic distance
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Losing your dictator: firms during political transition J. Econ. Growth (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2020-04-29 Felipe González, Mounu Prem
We use new firm-level data from Chile to document resource misallocation in favor of politically connected firms during the transition from dictatorship to democracy. We find that firms with links to the Pinochet regime (1973–1990) were relatively unproductive and benefited from resource misallocation under dictatorship, and those distortions persisted into democracy. We show that, after learning that
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The international epidemiological transition and the education gender gap J. Econ. Growth (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2020-02-28 Mariko J. Klasing, Petros Milionis
We explore the impact of the international epidemiological transition on educational attainment of males and females over the second half of the twentieth century. Using an instrumental variables strategy that exploits pre-existing variation in mortality rates across infectious diseases and gender differences in the responsiveness to the method of disease control, we document that health improvements