War, Peace, and Prosperity in the Name of God : The Ottoman Role in Europe's Socioeconomic Evolution

Autor: Murat Iyigun

Differences among religious communities have motivated—and continue to motivate—many of the deadliest conflicts in human history. But how did political power and organized religion become so thoroughly intertwined? And how have religion and relig

A theory of cultural revivals

Autor: Jared Rubin, Avner Seror, Murat Iyigun

Publikováno v: European Economic Review
European Economic Review, Elsevier, 2021, 135, pp.103734. ⟨10.1016/j.euroecorev.2021.103734⟩
European Economic Review, 2021, 135, pp.103734. ⟨10.1016/j.euroecorev.2021.103734⟩

Why do some societies fail to adopt more efficient institutions? And why do such failures often coincide with cultural movements that glorify the past? We propose a model highlighting the interplay—or lack thereof—between institutional change and

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https://hal-amu.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03545183

THE BECKER–COASE THEOREM RECONSIDERED

Autor: Yoram Weiss, Pierre-André Chiappori, Murat Iyigun

Publikováno v: Journal of Demographic Economics. 81:157-177

We reconsider the well-known Becker–Coase (BC) theorem according to which changes in divorce law should not affect divorce rates. We do that in a context of households that consume public goods in addition to private goods. For the Becker–Coase t

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https://doi.org/10.1017/dem.2015.3

Winter is Coming: The Long-Run Effects of Climate Change on Conflict, 1400-1900

Autor: Nathan Nunn, Nancy Qian, Murat Iyigun

This paper investigates the long-run effects of climate change on conflict by examining cooling from 1400-1900 CE, a period that includes most of the Little Ice Age. We construct a geo-referenced and digitized database of conflicts in Europe, North A

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https://doi.org/10.3386/w23033

The Long-Run Effects of Agricultural Productivity on Conflict, 1400-1900

Autor: Nancy Qian, Nathan Nunn, Murat Iyigun

Publikováno v: SSRN Electronic Journal.

This paper provides evidence of the long-run effects of a permanent increase in agricultural productivity on conflict. We construct a newly digitized and geo-referenced dataset of battles in Europe, the Near East and North Africa covering the period

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https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3127089