作者：Giuliano, Paola
作者单位：Harvard University; International Monetary Fund
摘要：Conventional economic analyses have not been successful in explaining differences in living arrangements and particularly the dramatic increase in the fraction of young adults living with their parents in Mediterranean Europe. This paper presents a cultural interpretation. I argue that the sexual revolution of the 1970s-by liberalizing parental attitudes-had a differential impact on living arrangements in Northern and Southern Europe on account of the closer parent-child ties in Southern Europ...
作者：Botticini, Maristella; Eckstein, Zvi
作者单位：University of Turin; Collegio Carlo Alberto; Boston University; Tel Aviv University; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
摘要：From the end of the second century CE, Judaism enforced a religious norm requiring fathers to educate their sons. We present evidence supporting our thesis that this change had a major influence on Jewish economic and demographic history. First, the high individual and community cost of educating children in subsistence farming economies (2nd to 7th centuries) prompted voluntary conversions of Jews that account for a share of the reduction from 4.5 to 1.2 million. Second, the Jewish farmers wh...
