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When the State Mirrors the Family: The Design of Pension Systems

Galasso, Vincenzo; Profeta, Paola - CESifo - 2010

This paper studies the transmission mechanism from family culture to economic institutions, by analyzing the impact of …

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The Agricultural Origins of Time Preference

Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer - CESifo - 2015

This research explores the origins of the distribution of time preference across regions. It advances the hypothesis, and establishes empirically that geographical variations in the natural return to agricultural investment have had a persistent effect on the distribution of time preference...

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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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Same Same But Different: Dialects and Trade

Lameli, Alfred; Nitsch, Volker; Suedekum, Jens; Wolf, … - CESifo - 2013

finding as evidence for the effect of culture on trade. …

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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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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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Dialects, Cultural Identity, and Economic Exchange

Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; Lameli, Alfred; … - CESifo - 2010

We investigate whether time-persistent cultural borders impede economic exchange across regions of the same country. To measure cultural differences we evaluate, for the first time in economics, linguistic micro-data about phonological and grammatical features of German dialects. These data are...

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Suicide Attacks and Religious Cleavages

Filote, Andra; Potrafke, Niklas; Ursprung, Heinrich - CESifo - 2015

Many experts claim that the incidence of suicide attacks is driven by religious cleavages. To test this hypothesis, we investigate whether the total number of suicide attacks per violent conflict or the annual number of suicide attacks per country is associated with simmering religious...

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Happiness and Financial Satisfaction in Israel. Effects of Religiosity, Ethnicity, and War

Praag, Bernard M.S. Van; Romanov, Dmitri; … - CESifo - 2010

We analyze individual satisfaction with life as a whole and satisfaction with the personal financial situation for Israeli citizens of Jewish and Arab descent. Our data set is the Israeli Social Survey (2006). We are especially interested in the impact of the religions Judaism, Islam and...

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Conflicts with Multiple Battlefields

Dan Kovenock J.; Roberson, Brian - CESifo - 2010

This paper examines conflicts in which performance is measured by the players' success or failure in multiple component conflicts, commonly termed “battlefields”. In multi-battlefield conflicts, behavioral linkages across battlefields depend both on the technologies of conflict within each...

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