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Doux Commerces: Does Market Competition Cause Trust?

Francois, Patrick; van Ypersele, Tanguy - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

This paper documents a strong positive relationship between individual reported trust levels (obtained from the US General Social Survey) and the competitiveness of the sector in which an individual works (obtained from the US census of firms). This correlation is robust to the inclusion of all...

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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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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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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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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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On the origins of gender roles: women and the plough

Alesina, Alberto F; Giuliano, Paola; Nunn, Nathan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

This paper seeks to better understand the historical origins of current differences in norms and beliefs about the appropriate role of women in society. We test the hypothesis that traditional agricultural practices influenced the historical gender division of labor and the evolution and...

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Bureaucracy as a Mechanism to Generate Information

Novaes, Walter; Zingales, Luigi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

Firms that maintain no formal record of actions and events would hardly be considered well managed. Yet, organizations …

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The Demand for Coordination

Dessein, Wouter; Santos, Jesus - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

This paper endogenizes coordination problems in organizations by allowing for both ex ante coordination of activities … coordination. In particular, specialization is often non-monotonic in the importance of coordination. (ii) Organizations exhibit … specialized task assignments, to very flexible organizations characterized by extensive task-bundling, intensive horizontal …

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The Anatomy of French Production Hierarchies

Caliendo, Lorenzo; Monte, Ferdinando; Rossi-Hansberg, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

We use a comprehensive dataset of French manufacturing firms to study their internal organization. We first divide the employees of each firm into `layers' using occupational categories. Layers are hierarchical in that the typical worker in a higher layer earns more, and the typical firm...

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Biased Contests and Moral Hazard: Implications for Career Profiles

Meyer, Margaret A - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1992

We study the design of a sequence of two contests between a pair of identical risk averse employees whose effort choices are private information. It is optimal for the organization to `bias' the second contest in favor of the early winner - the reduction in second-period incentives is outweighed...

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