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Cultures, Worldviews, and Intergenerational Altruism

Kubota, Kohei; Kamesaka, Akiko; Ogaki, Masao; Ohtake, Fumio - European Regional Science Association - 2013

This paper presents empirical evidence concerning effects of cultural differences on parents' attitudes toward children from unique U.S. and Japanese survey data. These data sets have been collected by Osaka University, and contain questions concerning worldviews and religions, hypothetical...

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The role of Culture on Self-Employment

MARCEN, MIRIAM - European Regional Science Association - 2013

account for the differences in entrepreneurial spirit across countries. This paper explores the role of culture in self … differences in self-employment rates by country of origin as evidence of the effect of culture. Using this epidemiological … approach, we find that culture has quantitatively significant effects the self-employment decision. …

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European migration, national origin and long-term economic development in the US

Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés; Berlepsch, Viola von - European Regional Science Association - 2013

Does the nationality of migrants arriving in any particular territory make a difference for long-term economic development? Have Irish, German or Italian settlers arriving in the US at the turn of the 20th century left an institutional trace which determines economic development differences to...

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Altruistic Economic Behaviors and Implicit Worldviews

Ogaki, Masao; Lee, SunYoun; Kim, Byung-Yeon; Kwon, Hyeog Ug - European Regional Science Association - 2014

not explained by income differences, a natural candidate for explaining such variation is culture. Some researchers have … Hiebert (2008), we see a worldview behind each culture. Here, a worldview consists of the explicit and implicit levels. He …

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