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52 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8347
Family Structure and the Education Gender Gap: Evidence from Italian Provinces
Graziella Bertocchi, Monica Bozzano
revised version published in: CESifo Economic Studies, Special Issue on the Determinants of Gender Gaps, 2015, 61, 263-300
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8128
Health, Height and the Household at the Turn of the 20th Century
Roy E. Bailey, Timothy J. Hatton, Kris Inwood
published in: Economic History Review, 2016, 69(1), 35–53
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8054
Land Reforms, Status and Population Growth
Ulla Lehmijoki, Tapio K. Palokangas
revised version published as 'Landowning, Status and Population Growth' in: E. Moser et al. (eds.), Dynamic Optimization in Environmental Economics, Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, 2014, 315 - 328; extended and more advanced version published as 'Land Reforms and Population Growth' in: Portuguese Economic Journal, 2016, 15, 1-15 (all versions co-authored with Ulla Lehmijoki)
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8016
Education Promoted Secularization
Sascha O. Becker, Markus Nagler, Ludger Woessmann
published as ''Education and Religious Participation: City-Level Evidence from Germany's Secularization Period 1890-1930' in: Journal of Economic Growth, 2017, 22 (3), 273-311
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7398
What Did the Old Poor Law Really Accomplish? A Redux
Avner Greif, Murat Iyigun
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7275
The Transformation of Hunger Revisited
Ian Gazeley, Andrew T. Newell, Mintewab Bezabih
published in: Journal of Economic History, 2015, 75(2), 512 - 552
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7224
Women, Medieval Commerce, and the Education Gender Gap
Graziella Bertocchi, Monica Bozzano
revised version published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2016, 44, 496-521
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7167
Why Did the Netherlands Develop So Early? The Legacy of the Brethren of the Common Life
I. Semih Akçomak, Dinand Webbink, Bas ter Weel
published in: Economic Journal, 2016, 126 (593), 821-860
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7151
Not the Opium of the People: Income and Secularization in a Panel of Prussian Counties
Sascha O. Becker, Ludger Woessmann
published in: American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings, 2013, 103 (3), 539-544
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6855
The Declines in Infant Mortality and Fertility: Evidence from British Cities in Demographic Transition
Andrew T. Newell, Ian Gazeley
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6829
iPEHD: The ifo Prussian Economic History Database
Sascha O. Becker, Francesco Cinnirella, Erik Hornung, Ludger Woessmann
published in: Historical Methods, 2014, 47(2), 57-66
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5773
Knocking on Heaven's Door? Protestantism and Suicide
Sascha O. Becker, Ludger Woessmann
published as 'Social Cohesion, Religious Beliefs, and the Effect of Protestantism on Suicide 'in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2018, 100(3), 377-391
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5584
The Empire Is Dead, Long Live the Empire! Long-Run Persistence of Trust and Corruption in the Bureaucracy
Sascha O. Becker, Katrin Boeckh, Christa Hainz, Ludger Woessmann
published in: Economic Journal, 2016, 126 (590), 40-74
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5454
The Role of Marriage in the Causal Pathway from Economic Conditions Early in Life to Mortality
Gerard J. van den Berg, Sumedha Gupta
published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2015, 40, 141–158
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4557
The Trade-off between Fertility and Education: Evidence from before the Demographic Transition
Sascha O. Becker, Francesco Cinnirella, Ludger Woessmann
published in: Journal of Economic Growth, 2010, 15 (3), 177–204
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4556
Catch Me If You Can: Education and Catch-up in the Industrial Revolution
Sascha O. Becker, Erik Hornung, Ludger Woessmann
published as 'Education and Catch-up in the Industrial Revolution' in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2011, 3 (3), 92-126
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4306
Fertility Decline and the Heights of Children in Britain, 1886-1938
Timothy J. Hatton, Richard M. Martin
published in: Explorations in Economic History, 2010, 47 (4), 505-519
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4209
No Room to Live: Urban Overcrowding in Edwardian Britain
Ian Gazeley, Andrew T. Newell
published as 'Why was urban over-crowding much more severe in Scotland than in the rest of the British Isles? Evidence from the first (1904) official household expenditure survey’ in: European Review of Economic History, 2011, 15 (1), 127-151
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4116
Cultures, Clashes and Peace
Erin K. Fletcher, Murat Iyigun
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4068
The Rise and Fall of the "Normalarbeitsverhältnis" in Germany
Toni Pierenkemper
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