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Worldviews and Intergenerational Altruism: Empirical Evidence for Germany
Akkemik, K. Ali; Dittrich, Marcus; Göksal, Koray; … - European Regional Science Association - 2013
German survey data containing questions on worldviews, religion, parental behavior, and socioeconomic variables. Our …
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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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SPATIAL ECONOMETRIC MODELLING OF MASSIVE DATASETS: THE CONTRIBUTION OF DATA MINING
TABASSO, MYRIAM; ARBIA, GIUSEPPE - European Regional Science Association - 2013
In this paper we provide a brief overview of some of the most recent empirical research on spatial econometric models and spatial data mining. Data mining in general is the search for hidden patterns that may exist in large databases. Spatial data mining is a process to discover interesting,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010740361
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Spatial Dependence in House Prices: Evidence from China¡¯s Interurban Housing Market
Gong, Yunlong; Boelhouwer, Peter; Haan, Jan de - European Regional Science Association - 2014
¡°Spatial thinking¡± is increasingly popular in housing market studies and spatial dependence across properties has been widely investigated in the intra-city housing market. The contribution of this paper is to study the spatial dependence and spillover effect of house prices from...
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Spatial patterns and size distributions of cities
Mori, Tomoya; Hsu, Wen-Tai; Smith, Tony E. - European Regional Science Association - 2014
City size distributions are known to be well approximated by power laws across many countries. One popular explanation for such power-law regularities is in terms of random growth processes, where power laws arise asymptotically from the assumption of iid growth rates among all cities within a...
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Cultural Distance and Gravity Effects among Migrants
Tubadji, Annie; Nijkamp, Peter - European Regional Science Association - 2013
of the presence of significant gravity effects of culture. The paper seeks to highlight three new research issues: (i … different immigrant groups; and (iii) the full culture-based development (CBD) mechanism of a joint cultural impact on the …
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Creativity in fashion design in Slovakia: the case study of Bratislava region
Pástor, Rudolf; Parízková, Jana - European Regional Science Association - 2013
This paper is focused on creativity in the fashion design in Slovakia. The fashion design in Bratislava region was selected as one of the creative industry for our research. The aim of the paper is to analyze creativity and innovation activities between Slovak fashion designers. In the paper...
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Institutions, Civil Society, Trust and Quality of Life: A Social Capital- And Social Identity-Based Approach. Evidence from the Russian Federation
Sechi, Guido; Tatarko, Alexander; Skilters, Jurgis - European Regional Science Association - 2014
Many scholars, since the early 2000s, advocate for the integration of institutionalist and communitarian views of social capital generation in order to explain civil society dynamics, in particular in countries ? such as former communist states - characterized by transitional processes, with a...
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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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