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dc.contributor.authorGUISO, Luigi
dc.contributor.authorSAPIENZA, Paola
dc.contributor.authorZINGALES, Luigi
dc.date.accessioned2008-09-18T14:32:03Z
dc.date.available2008-09-18T14:32:03Z
dc.date.issued2008
dc.identifier.issn1725-6704
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/9290
dc.description.abstractIs social capital long lasting? Does it affect long term economic performance? To answer these questions we test Putnam’s conjecture that today marked differences in social capital between the North and South of Italy were due to the culture of independence fostered by the free city-states experience in the North of Italy at the turn of the first millennium. We show that the medieval experience of independence has an impact on social capital within the North, even when we instrument for the probability of becoming a city-state with historical factors (such as the Etruscan origin of the city and the presence of a bishop in year 1,000). More importantly, we show that the difference in social capital among towns that in the Middle Ages had the characteristics to become independent and towns that did not exists only in the North (where most of these towns became independent) and not in the South (where the power of the Norman kingdom prevented them from doing so). Our difference in difference estimates suggest that at least 50% of the North-South gap in social capital is due to the lack of a free city-state experience in the South.en
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dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherEuropean University Institute
dc.relation.ispartofseriesEUI ECOen
dc.relation.ispartofseries2008/30en
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.subjectsocial capitalen
dc.subjectcultureen
dc.subjectpersistenceen
dc.subjectinstitutionsen
dc.subjecteconomic developmenten
dc.titleLong Term Persistenceen
dc.typeWorking Paperen
dc.neeo.contributorGUISO|Luigi|aut|EUI70005
dc.neeo.contributorSAPIENZA|Paola|aut|
dc.neeo.contributorZINGALES|Luigi|aut|
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