{"title":"Rising inequality and trends in leisure","authors":"Timo Boppart, L. R. Ngai","doi":"10.1007/s10887-021-09189-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10887-021-09189-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48110,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic Growth","volume":"27 1","pages":"153 - 185"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2017-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73941844","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Technology and labor regulations: theory and evidence","authors":"Alberto F. Alesina, M. Battisti, Joseph Zeira","doi":"10.1007/s10887-017-9146-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10887-017-9146-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48110,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic Growth","volume":"63 1","pages":"41 - 78"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2017-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76554823","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"British economic growth since 1270: the role of education","authors":"J. Madsen, F. Murtin","doi":"10.1007/s10887-017-9145-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10887-017-9145-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48110,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic Growth","volume":"58 6 1","pages":"229 - 272"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2017-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73693189","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Does European development have Roman roots? Evidence from the German Limes","authors":"Fabian Wahl","doi":"10.1007/s10887-017-9144-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10887-017-9144-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48110,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic Growth","volume":"80 1","pages":"313 - 349"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2017-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90590142","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Losing your dictator: firms during political transition","authors":"F. González, M. Prem","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2670869","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2670869","url":null,"abstract":"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 the dictatorship was going to end, firms in the dictator’s network increased their productive capacity, experienced higher profits, and obtained more loans from the main state-owned bank. We test for different explanations and provide suggestive evidence consistent with connected firms aiming to shield their market position for the transition to democracy.","PeriodicalId":48110,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic Growth","volume":"53 82 1","pages":"227-257"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2017-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80497955","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Battisti, Massimo Del Gatto, Christopher F. Parmeter
{"title":"Labor productivity growth: disentangling technology and capital accumulation","authors":"M. Battisti, Massimo Del Gatto, Christopher F. Parmeter","doi":"10.1007/s10887-017-9143-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10887-017-9143-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48110,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic Growth","volume":"47 4 1","pages":"111 - 143"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2017-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76513421","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Spatial competition, innovation and institutions: the Industrial Revolution and the Great Divergence","authors":"K. Desmet, A. Greif, Stephen L. Parente","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2927147","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2927147","url":null,"abstract":"This paper considers the possible contribution of spatial competition to the Industrial Revolution and the Great Divergence . Rather than exclusively focusing on the incentives of producers to adopt labor-saving technology, we also consider the incentives of factor suppliers’ organizations such as craft guilds to resist. Once we do so, industrialization no longer depends on market size per se, but on spatial competition between the guilds’ jurisdictions. We substantiate our theory’s claim of spatial competition being an important channel for industrialization (i) by providing historical evidence on the relation between spatial competition, craft guilds and innovation, and (ii) by showing that the calibrated model correctly predicts the timings of the Industrial Revolution and the Great Divergence .","PeriodicalId":48110,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic Growth","volume":"36 1","pages":"1-35"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2017-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90665828","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Negative shocks and mass persecutions: evidence from the Black Death","authors":"Remi Jedwab, N. Johnson, Mark Koyama","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2930722","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2930722","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractWe study the Black Death pogroms to shed light on the factors determining when a minority group will face persecution. Negative shocks increase the likelihood that minorities are persecuted. But, as shocks become more severe, the persecution probability decreases if there are economic complementarities between majority and minority groups. The effects of shocks on persecutions are thus ambiguous. We compile city-level data on Black Death mortality and Jewish persecutions. At an aggregate level, scapegoating increases the probability of a persecution. However, cities which experienced higher plague mortality were less likely to persecute. Furthermore, for a given mortality shock, persecutions were more likely where people were more inclined to believe conspiracy theories that blamed the Jews for the plague and less likely where Jews played an important economic role.\u0000","PeriodicalId":48110,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic Growth","volume":"99 1","pages":"1-51"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2017-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74174341","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Education and religious participation: city-level evidence from Germany’s secularization period 1890–1930","authors":"Sascha O. Becker, Markus Nagler, Ludger Woessmann","doi":"10.1007/s10887-017-9142-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10887-017-9142-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48110,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic Growth","volume":"36 1","pages":"273 - 311"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2017-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81989686","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}