Revolt on the Nile: : Economic shocks, religion, and political power

By Eric Chaney. 2013

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Subfields: Accounting, Demography, Sociology and Political Science

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Religious Competition and Reallocation: the Political Economy of Secularization in the Protestant Reformation* (2017, background): “The bargains struck in this market for political legitimacy have been critical to the organization of human societies for millennia, but have been relatively understudied by economists (see Chaney, 2013, and Rubin, 2017, for important exceptions).”
Workers of the World, Unite! Franchise Extensions and the Threat of Revolution in Europe, 1820-1938 (2014, background): “Chaney (2013) uses deep historical data on deviant Nile floods to show that the political power of religious leaders increased during periods of economic downturn and interprets this as evidence that these leaders could coordinate a revolt.”
Earthquakes, Religion, and Transition to Self-Government in Italian Cities (2016, unknown): “…of economic shocks on political support (Healy and Malhotra, 2009; Achen and Bartels, 2013), institutional change (Brückner and Ciccone, 2011; Chaney, 2013), and organization into religious communities (Ager and Ciccone, 2015).3 The historical experiment described in this paper 2 Barro…”
Jewish Persecutions and Weather Shocks: 1100-1800 (2017, unknown): “Chaney (2013) provides evidence that sharp deviations in the Nile floods strengthened the power of religious leaders who could threaten the political authorities with revolt.”
Peer effects in corporate disclosure decisions (2020, unknown): “…interval forthe peer effect estimate that is robust to weak instruments (Moreira, 2001, 2003; Moreira and Poi, 2003; Finlay and Magnusson, 2009; Chaney, 2013), which is centered around the point estimate.17 As for the other significant variables, a one standard deviation increase in firm size…”
The Effects of Weather Shocks on Economic Activity: What are the Channels of Impact? (2018, unknown): “Forcible removal of rulers has also been linked to fluctuations in climate (Dell, Jones, and Olken 2012; Kim 2014; Burke and Leigh 2010; Chaney 2013), and several historical cases of societal collapse have been compellingly attributed to climate change (Cullen et al. 2000; Haug et al. 2003; Buckley…”
Democratization Under the Threat of Revolution: Evidence From the Great Reform Act of 1832 (2015, background): “…usually tests the theory indirectly, either by relating economic shocks to democratic change (Burke and Leigh, 2010; Brückner and Ciccone, 2011; Chaney, 2013; Franck, forthcoming, Aidt and Leon, forthcoming) or by assessing whether the immediate consequences of democratization can credibly…”
Natural Experiments in Macroeconomics (2015, unknown): “(2011), Alesina and Giuliano (2013), Nunn (2013), and Chaney (2014) provide excellent surveys.”
The Power of the Street: Evidence from Egypt's Arab Spring (2017, background): “4Though see Chaney (2013), on the effect of drought in Egypt throughout the last several centuries on ruler concessions to religious authorities, which he interprets as being a partial response to the threat of protests and unrest weak institutions as those in Egypt may serve as a check on…”