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Does Culture Affect Divorce Decisions? Evidence from European Immigrants in the US

Sevilla-Sanz, Almudena; Furtado, Delia; Marcen, Miriam - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2010

This paper explores the role of culture in determining divorce decisions by examining differences in divorce rates by … of the effect of culture. The quantitatively significant estimated effects of culture are robust to controlling for a … divorce culture has a stronger impact on the divorce decisions of females than of males pointing to a potentially gendered …

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Culture and Corruption

Barr, Abigail; Serra, Danila - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2006

Working with a sample of individuals from 43 countries, including some of the most and least corrupt in the world, we run an experiment in which: `private citizens` have to decide whether and how much to offer `public servants` in exchange for corrupt services; `public servants` have to decide...

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Terms of Trade and Growth of Resource Economies: A Tale of Two Countries

Fosu, Augustin Kwasi - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2011

The current paper demonstrates a dochotomy of the growth response to changes in the barter terms of trade (TOT), employing as case studies the following two African countries: Botswana and Nigeria. Using distributed-lag analysis, the paper finds that the effect of TOT on output is positive and...

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Openness and inflaton volatility: Cross-country evidence

Bowdler, Christopher; Malik, Adeel - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2005

Recent decades have seen a considerable expansion of global trade and a simultaneous decline in inflation volatility. This paper investigates whether greater openness to trade helps achieve inflation stability. Using panel data for a sample of developing and industrial countries over the period...

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Millennium Development Goals, Agricultural Growth and Openness

Imai, Katsushi; Gaiha, Raghav - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2003

Millennium development goal (MDG) of poverty reduction aims for halving of the head-count ratio over the period 1990-2015. Available studies draw attention to the gap between observed and required growth rates, the difficulties of sustaining the latter over time, and whether the policy stance of...

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Knowledge-Driven Economic Development

Bandyopadhyay, Sanghamitra - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2006

This paper examines the impact of mass media and information and communications technologies (ICT) as knowledge-based infrastructures on economic development. The results strongly suggest that both mass media and ICT penetration are negatively associated with corruption. This result holds across...

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The effects of externalities and framing on bribery in a petty corruption experiment

Barr, Abigail; Serra, Danila - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2008

Using a simple one-shot bribery game, we find evidence of a negative externality effect and a framing effect. When the losses suffered by third parties due to a bribe being offered and accepted are high and the game is presented as a petty corruption scenario instead of in abstract terms...

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Bargaining for bribes under uncertainty

Serra, Danila - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2008

A corrupt transaction is often the result of bargaining between the parties involved. This paper models bribery as a double auction where a private citizen and a public official strategically interact as the potential buyer and the potential seller of a corrupt service. Individuals differ in...

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Combining Top-down and Bottom-up Accountability: Evidence from a Bribery Experiment

Serra, Danila - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2008

Monitoring corruption typically relies on top-down interventions aimed at increasing the probability of external controls and the severity of punishment. An alternative approach to fighting corruption is to induce bottom-up pressure for reform. Recent studies have shown that both top-down...

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Corruption and culture: An Experimental Analysis

Barr, Abigail; Serra, Danila - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2008

Why do some people choose corruption over honesty and others not? Do the social norms and values prevailing in the societies in which they grew up affect their decisions? In 2005, we conducted a bribery experiment and found that, among undergraduates, we could predict who would act corruptly...

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