The curious citation practices of Avner Greif : Janet Landa comes to grief

The effect of redistribution on migration: Evidence from the Israeli kibbutz

☆ This paper was previously circulated as: “Testing Adeline Delavande, Zvi Eckstein, Joe Ferrie, Avner Greif Rob Porter, William Rogerson, Izi Sin, Kathy Spier, Luis grateful to Raj Chetty (the editor) and to two anonymo Institute for Economic Research in Israel, and the Sapi E-mail address: [email protected]. 1 See, for example Epple and Romer (1991), Feldste 2 This model of self-selection o...

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Social Institutions and Economic Growth: Why England Rather than China Became the First Modern Economy

This paper highlights the crucial impact of social institutions on the historical process leading to the modern economy. Social institutions that insure risk-takers and limit violent responses to economic changes in‡uence investment in generating and implementing individually-risky, growth–enhancing new knowledge. The model allows for the possibility that even when social institutions are desig...

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Social Institutions, Violence, and Innovations: Did the Old Poor Law Matter?

Social institutions impact growth by redistributing resources to the young, the poor, the old, and the sick. This paper empirically substantiates that England’s premodern social institutions–specifically, the Old Poor Law (1601-1834)–contributed to her transition to the modern economy. It reduced violent, innovation-inhibiting reactions from the economic agents threatened by economic change. Th...