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Butler, Jeffrey V.; Giuliano, Paola; Guiso, Luigi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

A vast literature has investigated the relationship between trust and aggregate economic performance. We investigate the relationship between individual trust and individual economic performance. We find that individual income is hump-shaped in a measure of intensity of trust beliefs available...

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Family Ties and Political Participation

Alesina, Alberto; Giuliano, Paola - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

We establish an inverse relationship between family ties, generalized trust and political participation. The more individuals rely on the family as a provider of services, insurance, transfer of resources, the lower is civic engagement and political participation. The latter, together with...

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Tastes, Castes, and Culture: The Influence of Society on Preferences

Fehr, Ernst; Hoff, Karla - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Economists have traditionally treated preferences as exogenously given. Preferences are assumed to be influenced by neither beliefs nor the constraints people face. As a consequence, changes in behaviour are explained exclusively in terms of changes in the set of feasible alternatives. Here we...

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

Furtado, Delia; Marcén, Miriam; Sevilla-Sanz, Almudena - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

This paper explores the role of culture in determining divorce decisions by examining country of origin differences in … evidence of the effect of culture. Our results are robust to controlling for several home country variables including average …-ethnics. Supplemental analyses indicate that divorce culture has a stronger impact on the divorce decisions of females than of males …

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Gender Gaps in PISA Test Scores: The Impact of Social Norms and the Mother's Transmission of Role Attitudes

González de San Román, Ainara; de la Rica, Sara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

countries that take part in the evaluation programme. We find that differences in culture and social norms across countries and …

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Laws and Norms

Benabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper analyzes how private decisions and public policies are shaped by personal and societal preferences ("values"), material or other explicit incentives ("laws") and social sanctions or rewards ("norms"). It first examines how honor, stigma and social norms arise from individuals'...

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Culture, Intermarriage, and Differentials in Second-Generation Immigrant Women's Labor Supply

Gevrek, Z. Eylem; Gevrek, Deniz; Gupta, Sonam - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

We examine the impact of culture on the work behavior of second-generation immigrant women in Canada. We contribute to … the current literature by analyzing the role of intermarriage in intergenerational transmission of culture and its … country of ancestry as cultural proxies, we find that culture matters for the female labor supply. Cultural proxies are …

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Dialects, Cultural Identity, and Economic Exchange

Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; Lameli, Alfred; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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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Migration and Culture

Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

Culture is not new to the study of migration. It has lurked beneath the surface for some time, occasionally protruding … openly into the discussion, usually under some pseudonym. The authors bring culture into the open. They are concerned with … how culture manifests itself in the migration process for three groups of actors: the migrants, those remaining in the …

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Strategic Behavior across Gender: A Comparison of Female and Male Expert Chess Players

Gerdes, Christer; Gränsmark, Patrik - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

This paper aims to measure differences in risk behavior among expert chess players. The study employs a panel data set on international chess with 1.4 million games recorded over a period of 11 years. The structure of the data set allows us to use individual fixed-effect estimations to control...

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