| 来源类型 | Discussion paper |
| 规范类型 | 论文 |
| 来源ID | DP10098 |
| DP10098 ?Phantom of the Opera? or ?Sex and the City?? Historical Amenities as Sources of Exogenous Variation | |
| Christoph Schmidt; Thomas Bauer | |
| 发表日期 | 2014-08-03 |
| 出版年 | 2014 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Using the location of baroque opera houses as a natural experiment, Falck et al. (2011) claim to document a positive causal effect of the supply of cultural goods on today?s regional distribution of talents. This paper raises serious doubts on the validity of the identification strategy underlying these estimates, though. While we are able to replicate the original results, we proceed to show that the same empirical strategy also assigns positive causal effects to the location of historical brothels and breweries. These estimated effects are similar in size and significance to those of historical opera houses. We document that all these estimates reflect the importance of institutions for long-run economic growth, and that the effect of historical amenities on the contemporary local share of high skilled workers disappears upon controlling for regions? historical importance. |
| 主题 | International Trade and Regional Economics ; Labour Economics |
| 关键词 | Human capital Historical amenities Regional competitiveness |
| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp10098 |
| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom) |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/538931 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Christoph Schmidt,Thomas Bauer. DP10098 ?Phantom of the Opera? or ?Sex and the City?? Historical Amenities as Sources of Exogenous Variation. 2014. |
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