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Religion and Innovation
Bénabou, Roland; Ticchi, Davide; Vindigni, Andrea - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
In earlier work (Bénabou, Ticchi and Vindigni 2013) we uncovered a robust negative association between religiosity and patents per capita, holding across countries as well as US states, with and without controls. In this paper we turn to the individual level, examining the relationship between...
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Culture: Persistence and Evolution
Giavazzi, Francesco; Petkov, Ivan; Schiantarelli, Fabio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
This paper presents evidence on the speed of evolution (or lack thereof) of a wide range of values and beliefs of different generations of European immigrants to the US. The main result is that persistence differs greatly across cultural attitudes. Some, for instance deep personal religious...
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Like Mother Like Son? Experimental Evidence on the Transmission of Values from Parents to Children
Cipriani, Marco; Giuliano, Paola; Jeanne, Olivier - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
This paper studies whether prosocial values are transmitted from parents to their children. We do so through an economic experiment, in which a group of Hispanic and African American families play a standard public goods game. The experimental data presents us with a surprising result. We find...
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Democratic Redistribution and Rule of the Majority
Corneo, Giacomo; Neher, Frank - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
Does redistribution in democracies cater to the will of the majority? We propose and apply a simple empirical strategy based on survey data to address that longstanding issue. Differently from previous evaluations of the median-voter theory, ours does not assume that voters are guided by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011084276
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Intermediation and Economic Integration
Antràs, Pol; Costinot, Arnaud - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
The theory of international trade has paid scant attention to market institutions. Neither neoclassical theory nor new trade models typically specify the process by which supply and demand meet. Yet in the real world, intermediaries play a central role in materializing the gains from exchange...
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Intermediated Trade
Antràs, Pol; Costinot, Arnaud - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
This paper develops a simple model of international trade with intermediation. We consider an economy with two islands and two types of agents, farmers and traders. Farmers can produce two goods, but in order to sell these goods in centralized (Walrasian) markets, they need to be matched with a...
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The Agricultural Origins of Time Preference
Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
This research explores the origins of the distribution of time preference across regions. It advances the hypothesis, and establishes empirically, that geographical variations in natural land productivity and their impact on the return to agricultural investment have had a persistent effect on...
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Income and Wealth Concentration in Spain in a Historical and Fiscal Perspective
Alvaredo, Facundo; Saez, Emmanuel - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
This paper presents series on top shares of income and wealth in Spain over the 20th century using personal income and … wealth tax return statistics. Top income shares are highest in the 1930s, fall sharply during the first two decades of the … Franco dictatorship, and have increased slightly since the 1960s, and especially since the mid-1990s. The top 0.01% income …
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Doux Commerces: Does Market Competition Cause Trust?
Francois, Patrick; van Ypersele, Tanguy - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
.g., income, education, age, sex, marital status, city size, religion, and is large; a one standard deviation increase in sectoral …
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The Clan and the City: Sustaining Cooperation in China and Europe
Greif, Avner; Tabellini, Guido - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
Over the last millennium, the clan and the city have been the locus of cooperation in China and Europe respectively. This paper examines - analytically, historically, and empirically - the cultural, social, and institutional co-evolution that led to this bifurcation. We highlight that groups...
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