This study examines how the historical state conditions long‐run development, using
Vietnam as a laboratory. Northern Vietnam (Dai Viet) was ruled by a strong, centralized state …

Colonial powers typically organized economic activity in the colonies to maximize their
economic returns. While the literature has emphasized long-run negative economic impacts …

This article evaluates the role of community bonds in the long-term transmission of political
values. At the end of World War II, Poland's borders shifted westward, and the population …

Libman and Obydenkova reveal how legacies of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
(CPSU) have survived in the politics, economic development, culture, and society of post …

Significant variation in the institutions and efficiency of public bureaucracies across
countries and regions are observed. These differences could be partially responsible for …

We explore the legacy of foreign state repression by using the case of the de facto annexed
Nazi operational zones in Italy and a spatial regression discontinuity design. We show that …

Tomas Cvrcek offers a re-evaluation of the Theresian school reform of 1774 and its
consequences using statistical data on schooling produced by the public administration. As …

Despite the increase in the adoption of online educational platforms, student retention is still
a challenging task with a number of students having low performance margins during these …

Inequalities in human capital most often affect other spheres of life. It is people who create
innovation, so the unequal distribution of human capital and innovation in the regions leads …

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znacznie niższej gęstości wskaźników potencjału innowacji. Te drugie obejmują …