This article presents evidence that cultural proximity between the exporting and the receiving countries positively affects the adoption of new institutions and the resulting long-term economic outcomes. We obtain this result by combining new information on pre-Napoleonic principalities with county-level census data from nineteenth-century Prussia. We exploit a quasi-natural experiment generated by radical Napoleonic institutional reforms and the deeply rooted cultural heterogeneity across Prussian counties. We show that institutional reforms in counties that are culturally more similar to France, in terms of religious affiliation, generate better long-term economic performance.

(2019). Institutional Transplant and Cultural Proximity: Evidence from Nineteenth-Century Prussia [journal article - articolo]. In THE JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC HISTORY. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10446/223650

Institutional Transplant and Cultural Proximity: Evidence from Nineteenth-Century Prussia

Lecce, Giampaolo;Ogliari, Laura
2019-01-01

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This article presents evidence that cultural proximity between the exporting and the receiving countries positively affects the adoption of new institutions and the resulting long-term economic outcomes. We obtain this result by combining new information on pre-Napoleonic principalities with county-level census data from nineteenth-century Prussia. We exploit a quasi-natural experiment generated by radical Napoleonic institutional reforms and the deeply rooted cultural heterogeneity across Prussian counties. We show that institutional reforms in counties that are culturally more similar to France, in terms of religious affiliation, generate better long-term economic performance.
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Lecce, Giampaolo; Ogliari, Laura
(2019). Institutional Transplant and Cultural Proximity: Evidence from Nineteenth-Century Prussia [journal article - articolo]. In THE JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC HISTORY. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10446/223650
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Descrizione: This article has been published in a revised form in The Journal of Economic History, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022050719000366. This version is published under a Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-ND. No commercial re-distribution or re-use allowed. Derivative works cannot be distributed. © The Economic History Association 2019
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