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Kinship Systems, Cooperation and the Evolution of Culture

Enke, Benjamin - 2017

Cultural psychologists and anthropologists argue that societies have developed heterogeneous systems of social organization to cope with social dilemmas, and that an entire bundle of psychological and biological characteristics has coevolved to enforce cooperation within these different regimes....

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Can War Foster Cooperation?

Bauer, Michal - 2016

In the past decade, nearly 20 studies have found a strong, persistent pattern in surveys and behavioral experiments from over 40 countries: individual exposure to war violence tends to increase social cooperation at the local level, including community participation and prosocial behavior. Thus...

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The Division of Labor in Teams : A Conceptual Framework and Application to Collaborations in Science

Häussler, Carolin - 2016

Even though teams have become the dominant mode of knowledge production, little is known regarding how they divide work among their members. Conceptualizing knowledge production as a process involving a number of functional activities, we first develop a conceptual framework to study the...

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Teaching Practices and Social Capital

Algan, Yann - 2011

We use several data sets to consider the effect of teaching practices on student beliefs, as well as on organization of firms and institutions. In cross-country data, we show that teaching practices (such as copying from the board versus working on projects together) are strongly related to...

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International Liquidity : The Fiscal Dimension

Obstfeld, Maurice - 2011

This paper argues that if policymakers seek to enhance global liquidity, then the international community must provide a higher and better coordinated level of fiscal support than it has in the past. Loans to troubled sovereigns or financial institutions imply a credit risk that ultimately must...

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Can e-commerce mitigate the negative impact of COVID-19 on international trade?

Hayakawa, Kazunobu; Mukunoki, Hiroshi; Urata, Shūjirō - 2021

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Does vaccination mitigate the negative impacts of coronavirus on trade?

Hayakawa, Kazunobu - 2021

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Trade, poverty eradication, and the sustainable development goals

Brambilla, Irene; Porto, Guido G. - 2016

This paper investigates if trade can help achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal of poverty … eradication using microeconomic and macroeconomic mechanisms and the effects of trade and trade policy on consumer prices … household may be lifted out of or pushed into poverty. The impacts of trade on growth and longer-term consequences of trade …

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Trade and SDG 13 : action on climate change

Prag, Andrew - 2017

This paper assesses the interaction of international trade with climate policies, and the influence of trade on the … implementation of SDG 13 (climate change). Although international trade contributes directly to GHG emissions, increased trade can …. Given that emissions are not universally priced, the paper examines where policies related to trade may be misaligned with …

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Structural change, trade, and inequality : some cross-country evidence

Roy, Rudra Prosad; Roy, Saikat Sinha - 2017

structural change impacts on inequality for a sample of advanced, emerging, and transition economies. Trade liberalization … found that the process of structural change increases income inequality, while trade liberalization and FDI inflows help to …

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