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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008671713
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011167137
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009651860
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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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877639
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005013065
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008534012
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Dialects, Cultural Identity, and Economic Exchange
Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; Lameli, Alfred; … - CESifo - 2010
a gravity analysis, we show that current cross-regional migration is positively affected by historical dialect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008583636
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010659185
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US Male Obesity from 1800-2000: A Long Term Perspective
Carson, Scott A. - CESifo - 2013
This study compares two US BMI data sets, one from the 1800s and the other from the early 2000s, to determine how black and white male obesity rates varied between 1800 and 2000. The proportion of individuals who were obese rather than overweight is responsible much of the increase in obesity....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010690386
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Transportation Costs and the Great Divergence
Azarnert, Leonid V. - CESifo - 2014
This work shows the asymmetric effect of the reduction in transportation costs across different sectors in the process of the Great Divergence. Specifically, the analysis indicates that reductions in transportation costs of industrial goods enhance convergence of the growth rates of trading...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010764285