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The Scope of Cooperation: Values and Incentives

Tabellini, Guido - CESifo - 2008

What explains the range of situations in which individuals cooperate? This paper studies a model where individuals respond to incentives but are also influenced by norms of good conduct inherited from earlier generations. Parents rationally choose what values to transmit to their offspring, and...

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Does Culture Affect Unemployment? Evidence from the Röstigraben

Brügger, Beatrix; Lalive, Rafael; Zweimüller, Josef - CESifo - 2009

This paper studies the role of culture in shaping unemployment outcomes. The empirical analysis is based on local … political jurisdictions. Local contrasts across the language border identify the role of culture for unemployment. Our findings … indicate that differences in culture explain differences in unemployment duration on the order of 20 %. Moreover, we find that …

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International Trade, Factor Mobility and the Persistence of Cultural-Institutional Diversity

Belloc, Marianna; Bowles, Samuel - CESifo - 2009

Cultural and institutional differences among nations may result in differences in the ratios of marginal costs of goods in autarchy and thus be the basis of specialization and comparative advantage, as long as these differences are not eliminated by trade. We provide an evolutionary model of...

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Culture and Tax Structures

König, Tobias; Wagener, Andreas - CESifo - 2012

We argue that societies with a stronger tendency towards postmaterialist life goals tilt the tax structure towards personal income taxes and away from corporate taxation. We provide empirical evidence for this correlation in OECD countries. To address endogeneity issues we then use an...

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International Trade and Cultural Diversity: A Model of Preference Selection

Bala, Vankatesh; Long, Ngo Van - CESifo - 2004

provide an explanation of why small countries sometimes exclude certain goods (especially those related to culture) from trade …

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Culture and Cooperation

Gaechter, Simon; Herrmann, Benedikt; Thöni, Christian - CESifo - 2010

cultural background relative to individual heterogeneity and group-level differences in cooperation. We find that culture has a …

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Qualifying Religion: The Role of Plural Identities for Educational Production

Boppart, Timo; Falkinger, Josef; Grossmann, Volker; … - CESifo - 2008

This paper examines the role of religious denomination for human capital formation. We employ a unique data set which covers, inter alia, information on numerous measures of school inputs in 169 Swiss districts for the years 1871/72, 1881/82 and 1894/95, marks from pedagogical examinations of...

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Culture and Institutions: Economic Development in the Regions of Europe

Tabellini, Guido - CESifo - 2005

Does culture have a causal effect on economic development? The data on European regions suggest that it does. Culture … individual self-determination. To isolate the exogenous variation in culture, I rely on two historical variables used as … level. The exogenous component of culture due to history is strongly correlated with current regional economic development …

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Pay as you Go: A New Proposal for Museum Pricing

Frey, Bruno S.; Steiner, Lasse - CESifo - 2010

Museums have many different goals beyond efficiency such as social equity, financial revenue, attracting donors and gaining international, regional or local prestige. Various pricing schemes are being discussed with the aim of reaching these goals. The classical ones are entry prices and free...

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Workers without Borders? Culture, Migration and the Political Limits to Globalization

Jain, Sanjay; Majumdar, Sumon; Mukand, Sharun - CESifo - 2010

This paper examines the role of cultural factors in driving the politics and shape of migration policy. We show that there exists a broad political failure that results in inefficiently high barriers restricting the import of temporary foreign workers and also admitting an inefficiently large...

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