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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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Same Same But Different: Dialects and Trade

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

Language is a strong and robust determinant of international trade patterns: Countries sharing a common language trade … that this trade-promoting effect of language is likely to reflect cultural ties, rather than lower costs of communication … or similar institutions. Analyzing unique data for a single-language country, Germany, we find that similarities in the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877639

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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On the Arbitrariness of Consumption

Whalley, John; Zhang, Shunming - CESifo - 2009

We discuss a simple model of choices of joint consumption by a working couple who place maintenance of their marriage (relationship) above all else. Any proposal made by one partner seeking to provide maximal utility to the other so as to preserve the marriage, in the case where preferences of...

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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 … families featuring either weak or strong internal ties. When pensions systems are initially introduced, in society with strong …

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Culture, Spatial Diffusion of Ideas and their Long-Lasting Imprints - Evidence from Froebel's Kindergarten Movement

Bauernschuster, Stefan; Falck, Oliver - CESifo - 2014

We document the spatial diffusion of Friedrich Froebel’s radical invention of kindergartens in 19th-century Germany. The first kindergarten was founded at Froebel’s birthplace. Early spatial diffusion can be explained by cultural proximity, measured by historical dialect similarity, to...

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Does the European Marriage Pattern Explain Economic Growth

Dennison, Tracy; Ogilvie, Sheilagh - CESifo - 2013

This paper scrutinizes the recently postulated link between the European Marriage Pattern (EMP) and economic success. A metastudy of the historical demography literature shows that the EMP did not prevail throughout Europe, its three key components did not always coincide, and its more extreme...

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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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Does Culture Cause Economic Development? A Reassessment of the Evidence from European Regions

Edwards, Jeremy - CESifo - 2012

This paper shows that Tabellini’s recent claim to have provided evidence that culture has a causal effect on economic … to support any conclusions about the effect of culture on economic development. …

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