作者：Vrije Universiteit Brussel
作者：Utrecht University; Humboldt University of Berlin; Lund University
摘要：With use of innovative proxies and new annual data, I demonstrate that relatively high legal capacity and regulatory activity of the early-modern Polish parliament, the Seym, was positively associated with deeper domestic commodity market integration. Conversely, the lack of effective law-making, caused by the right of a single delegate to discontinue the Seym's sessions, fostered market fragmentation. This indicates that early parliamentary regimes required legal capacity to harmonize domesti...
作者：Australian National University
作者：Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economicas A.C. (CIDE)
作者：University of London; London School Economics & Political Science
作者：Middlebury College
摘要：In an attempt to divide and marginalize the black population, the apartheid regime forcefully relocated some 3.5 million South Africans to rural homelands between 1960 and 1980. This event, considered one of history's largest social engineering exercises, created overcrowded and economically deprived communities of displaced people. This article uses geo-coded data to explore the long-term effects of removals on current measures of social capital. Comparing people within the same homeland, I s...
